12.520, Qs: Discourse Referents/Time, "Gengo Seikatsu"

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Subject: 12.520, Qs: Discourse Referents/Time, "Gengo Seikatsu"

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Date:  Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:42:17 -0800
From:  Robert Belvin <robin at hrl.com>
Subject:  discourse referents and time

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Date:  Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:45:07 +0300
From:  "Vladimir Rykov" <rykov2000 at mail.ru>
Subject:  Gengo Seikatsu

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:42:17 -0800
From:  Robert Belvin <robin at hrl.com>
Subject:  discourse referents and time

Does anyone know of studies which look at the extent to which the passage
of time determines whether a discourse referent is "current" or not.  For
example, given a discourse like the following:

A:  "Is John here?"
B:  "I don't know"
      ...time delay...
C:  "Is he in his office?"

How long a time delay might there be before "he" in the third sentence
could no longer felicitously be interpreted as "John", assuming no other
discourse referents had been introduced during the delay.  I realize this
example is simplistic, but hopefully it suffices to illustrate the area of
study I'm interested in.

Thanks,
Robert Belvin


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Date:  Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:45:07 +0300
From:  "Vladimir Rykov" <rykov2000 at mail.ru>
Subject:  Gengo Seikatsu



	
I would be grateful if anyone would send me info/sources of info (in
English) of a kind of Japanese linguistic field of research called
"Gengo Seikatsu" (somemthing like "linguistic Existence" in my double
bad translation)
		
	
Vladimir Rykov, PhD in Computational Linguistics,
Personal web-site: http://rykov.narod.ru/
MOCKBA, Linguistic Institute of RAS
English version: http://www.blkbox.com/~gigawatt/rykov.html
	

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