SEM 29 avril

[Agnès Celle]

Jonathan Ginzburg (Paris-Diderot, CLILLAC-ARP) donnera une conférence 
le vendredi 29 avril à 14h à l'UFR d'Etudes anglophones, 8-10 rue 
Charles V, salle C28:

A Theory of Relevance for Questions

  Relevance in the sense of *conversational coherence* is the most 
fundamental notion for research on dialogue. It is the cornerstone of 
theories of dialogue in the same way that *grammaticality* is to 
syntax.  In this paper I restrict attention to relevance relating a 
query to a possible (felicitous) response.
Still, even restricted to this domain, attempts at a comprehensive 
characterization of relevance, difficult as they undoubtedly are, are 
few and far between. Indeed, most existing accounts are intrinsically 
restricted in their ability to scale up.
I offer a number of arguments for the need for a notion of relevance 
 internalized in some way within the theory of meaning: relevance 
seems to underpin certain types of clarification questions and *lack 
of conversational relevance seems to underpin the inference that one 
does not wish to address a prior utterance, as pointed out in Grice's 
classical   paper (Grice, 1975).  I sketch an   account of relevance 
within the dialogue theory KoS (Ginzburg, 2009, forthcoming), 
underpinned by Type Theory with Records (Cooper, 2005) and offer 
preliminary results of a corpus study in this domain.




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Cordialement

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Agnès CELLE
CLILLAC-ARP EA 3967
UFR d'Etudes anglophones
Université Paris-Diderot
8-10, rue Charles V
F - 75 004 Paris
tel: +33 (0)1 57 27 58 67
fax: +33 (0)1 57 27 58 21
agnes.celle at univ-paris-diderot.fr

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