Bilingual Discourse Comprehension: The Role of Language Overlap in Updating the Discourse Representation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Karly M. Schleicher ◽  
Ana I. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Representation ◽  
Discourse Comprehension

scholarly journals Un modèle d’analyse de structures situationnelles de discours

2015 ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Ewa Miczka
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Discourse Representation ◽  
Discourse Comprehension ◽  
Proposed Model

A model for the analysis of situational discourse structuresIn this paper the author presents a model for the analysis of situational discourse structures applied to fait divers. Situational structures of discourse are defined as a sequence of experiential frames. Each frame permits to conceptualize one event forming a part of information introduced in discourse. The proposed model permits to analyze (1) the internal structure of experiencial frames activated in discours and (2) possible relations between frames identified in discourse. The author aims to present the role of situational structures in discourse comprehension – the process which implicates creation of discourse representation.

Theoretical Perspectives on Listening

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Language Skills ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Discourse Comprehension ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Research into listening over the past three decades has, above all, highlighted the fundamental intricacy of the processes involved. In order to make sense of spoken messages, listeners may need to integrate information from a range of sources: phonetic, phonological, prosodic, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic. The fact that we achieve all this in real time as the message unfolds makes listening “complex, dynamic, and fragile” (Celce-Murcia 1995:366). In this review I consider research into four aspects of these complexities: processes (e.g., speech recognition, discourse comprehension, and memory); the role of context; factors influencing listening; and the relationship of listening with other language skills. Finally I suggest likely directions for future research into listening.

scholarly journals Locating adverbials in discourse

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURE VIEU ◽  
MYRIAM BRAS ◽  
NICHOLAS ASHER ◽  
MICHEL AURNAGUE
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Discourse Representation ◽  
Discourse Representation Theory ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Discourse Connectives

This article analyses Locating Adverbials (LAs) such as un peu plus tard, ce matin, deux kilomètres plus loin (‘a little later’, ‘this morning’, ‘two kilometers further’) when they are dislocated to the left of the sentence (IP Adjuncts cases). Although not discourse connectives, in such a position, they seem to play an important part in structuring discourse. It is this contribution of LAs to discourse that we tackle, providing a descriptive analysis and a formal account grounded on Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. In particular, we deal with the frame introducer role of the LAs and with spatio-temporal interpretations of these markers occurring in trajectory descriptions.

The Role of Sourcing in Discourse Comprehension

2017 ◽  
pp. 141-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivar Bråten ◽  
Marc Stadtler ◽  
Ladislao Salmerón
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Comprehension

scholarly journals Satztopik und Diskurstopik in Elaboration-Kontexten

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 173-207
Author(s):  
Michael Grabski
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Discourse Representation ◽  
Discourse Representation Theory ◽  
Specific Relation ◽  
Explicit Discourse ◽  
Semantic Differentiation ◽  
Discourse Topic

The paper starts with a semantic differentiation between the notions of sentence topic and discourse topic. Sentence topic is conceived of as part of a semantic predication in the sense of Y. Kim's work. Discourse topic is defined, as in N. Asher's Segmented Discourse Representation Theory, as a discourse constituent that comprises the content of (part of) the larger discourse. The main body of the paper serves to investigate the intricate connection between the two types of topic. For restricting the context of investigation, a specific relation between discourse constituents, Elaboration, is chosen. If Elaboration holds between two discourse constituents, one of them can be identified as the explicit discourse topic with respect to the other one. Whereas an elaborating sentence - with or without a sentence topic - is used to infer a 'dimension' for extending the discourse topic, the role of the sentence topic if it occurs is to mark an 'index' for predication along that dimension. The interaction of elaborating sentences and their topics is modelled by means of channel theoretic devices.'  

Tense and Aspect in Discourse Representation Theory

2019 ◽  
pp. 521-582
Author(s):  
Hans Kamp
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
World Knowledge ◽  
Discourse Representation ◽  
Discourse Representation Theory ◽  
Tense And Aspect ◽  
Discourse Relations ◽  
Discourse Interpretation ◽  
Aspectual Meaning

This chapter is about the treatment of tense and aspect in Discourse Representation Theory. The focus is on the role that different tense forms and other sentence constituents with temporal and/or aspectual meaning components have on the interpretation of sentence sequences: how the occurrence of such a constituent in a sentence links its interpretation temporally or aspectually to that of the sentence of sentences preceding it. The concern on the discourse linking role of tenses and other sentence constituents led to DRT in the first place, with its architecture that is geared to deal with the systematic properties of incremental discourse interpretation. Novel about the chapter is its discussion of the distinction between temporal cross-sentential discourse links that are fully determined by the choice of tense forms alone and those which also rely on world knowledge and discourse relations. DRT work on sentence- and word-internal structure is not discussed.

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