scholarly journals Anaphora and Discourse Structure

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Webber ◽  
Matthew Stone ◽  
Aravind Joshi ◽  
Alistair Knott
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Compositional Semantics ◽  
Anaphor Resolution ◽  
Discourse Interpretation

We argue in this article that many common adverbial phrases generally taken to signal a discourse relation between syntactically connected units within discourse structure instead work anaphorically to contribute relational meaning, with only indirect dependence on discourse structure. This allows a simpler discourse structure to provide scaffolding for compositional semantics and reveals multiple ways in which the relational meaning conveyed by adverbial connectives can interact with that associated with discourse structure. We conclude by sketching out a lexicalized grammar for discourse that facilitates discourse interpretation as a product of compositional rules, anaphor resolution, and inference.

scholarly journals Discourse Structure and Discourse Interpretation

1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 492
Author(s):  
Livia Polanyi
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
General Session ◽  
Discourse Interpretation

Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Structure (1997)

Autrement

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-297
Author(s):  
Paul Isambert
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Subordinate Clause ◽  
Compositional Semantics ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Verb Phrase ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Manner Adverb

The French manner adverb autrement, as indicated by its morphology, derives a representation of manner from another (autre = other) representation ; the latter may be retrieved either in a subordinate clause following the adverb (autrement que P) or in the context preceding autrement. In the latter case, studied here, an anaphor is performed, and this paper, based on a corpus study, shows how identifying the antecedent is guided by clues, ranging from the verb phrase where autrement occurs to the environing discourse structure. In some cases, those clues are so frequent that one can talk about ‘discourse strategies’ or even collocations. It is thus shown that the adverb’s interpretation obtains not so much from compositional semantics (even helped by context) than from the properties of the constructions where it occurs.

When Does Anaphor Resolution Fail?

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celia M. Klin ◽  
Alexandria E. Guzman ◽  
Kristin M. Weingartner ◽  
William M. Levine
Keyword(s):  
Anaphor Resolution

A Fan Effect in Anaphor Resolution

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin S. Autry ◽  
William H. Levine
Keyword(s):  
Anaphor Resolution ◽  
Fan Effect

VOICE AND FREQUENCY IN QUENTIN TARANTINO’S PULP FICTION MOVIE SCRIPT

CALL ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Agung ◽  
Dadan Rusmana ◽  
Lili Awaludin
Keyword(s):  
Research Problem ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Pulp Fiction ◽  
Movie Script

This research discusses the narrative discourse structure in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction movie script. Pulp Fiction (1994) Pulp Fiction is known as one of the best crime and drama genre movie. Pulp Fiction directed by Quentin Tarantino. Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery wrote the script. The movie presented many drops of blood, fights, and gun in the scenes. This movie also provides us with many “nigga” words. The researcher used Gerrard Genette’s narrative discourse theory. This study was conducted into two research problem; 1. What are the kinds of voice that consist in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction movie script? 2. What are the kinds of frequency that consists in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction movie script? The result of this research shows that in this movie there are two kinds of voice. Moreover, there are some data that show frequency that exist in Quentin Tarantino’ Pulp Fiction movie script.

Classroom Discourse Structure in MTs Negeri Rantauprapat

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jupriaman Jupriaman ◽  
Sri Minda Murni
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Discourse ◽  
Tape Recorder ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Video Tape ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Video Tape Recorder ◽  
Field Note

The objectives of this study were to describe the classroom discourse structure, to describe how the classroom discourse is realized by teacher and students and the reasons for the realizations of the ways they are. The source of the data was English teacher and the students while the data are verbal and non verbal utterances of students and teachers. The instruments for collecting data were video tape recorder and researcher’s field note. The data were collected by observing and recording the utterances uttered by the teacher and students. The findings showed that the classroom discourse structures were dominantly realized by Initiation and Response (IR) structure. It was reflected in teacher direct, elicit and information exchanges was found that the classroom discourse structures. The other exchanges occur are boundary (framing and focusing move), directive, informing, check, accept, react, reply, nomination, marker, bid and conclusion acts. The reasons why the realization as the ways they are (1) teacher as a centre of interaction, (2) teacher gives some questions without any caring to the evaluation, appreciation and feedback without any feedback to make dialogue, (3) students have been disciplined not to speak in classes without a teacher’s direction, and most of them are unwilling to speak English.   Keywords: Classroom Discourse Structures, Initiation and Response, Sinclair and Coulthard Theory

Lexical Meaning, Concepts, and the Metasemantics of Predicates

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Glanzberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representations ◽  
Compositional Semantics ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Standard Methods

This chapter examines how concepts relate to lexical meanings. It focuses on how we can appeal to concepts to give specific, cognitively rich contents to lexical entries, while at the same time using standard methods of compositional semantics. This is a problem, as those methods assume lexical meanings provide extensions, while concepts are mental representations that have very different structure from an extension. The chapter proposes a way to solve this problem which is by casting concepts in a metasemantic role for certain expressions, notably verbs, but more also generally, with expressions that function as content-giving predicates in a sentence.

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