16.3598, Books: Philosophy of Language/Semantics: Asher,Lascarides

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Date: 15-Dec-2005
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Logics of Conversation: Asher, Lascarides 

	
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Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:16:57
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Logics of Conversation: Asher, Lascarides 
 



Title: Logics of Conversation 
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language Processing  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521659512 


Author: Nicholas Asher
Author: Alex Lascarides

Paperback: ISBN: 0521659515 Pages: 548 Price: U.K. £ 28.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521659515 Pages: 548 Price: U.S. $ 48.00


Abstract:

People often mean more than they say. Grammar on its own is typically
insufficient for determining the full meaning of an utterance; the
assumption that the discourse is coherent or 'makes sense' has an important
role to play in determining meaning as well. Logics of Conversation
presents a dynamic semantic framework called Segmented Discourse
Representation Theory, or SDRT, where this interaction between discourse
coherence and discourse interpretation is explored in a logically precise
manner. Combining ideas from dynamic semantics, commonsense reasoning and
speech act theory, SDRT uses its analysis of rhetorical relations to
capture intuitively compelling implicatures. It provides a computable
method for constructing these logical forms and is one of the most formally
precise and linguistically grounded accounts of discourse interpretation
currently available. The book will be of interest to researchers and
students in linguistics and in philosophy of language. 



Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Motivations
2. Semantic models of discourse interpretation
3. Pragmatic models of discourse interpretation
4. The logical form of discourse
5. Building logical forms for discourse
6. The lexicon and discourse structure
7. Discourse relations for dialogue
8. Disputes in dialogue
9. Cognitive modelling
10. Some concluding remarks: 
A. Objections and replies 
B. Notation index
C. The semantics of DRT
D. Glossary of discourse relations
E. Summary of discourse update
F. Some proofs in the glue logic
References
Indexes 


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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