Computational and Conversational Discourse
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People engage in discourse every day - from writing letters and presenting papers to simple discussions. Yet discourse is a complex and fascinating phenomenon that is not well understood. This volume stems from a multidisciplinary workshop in which eminent scholars in linguistics, sociology and computational linguistics presented various aspects of discourse. The topics treated range from multi-party conversational interactions to deconstructing text from various perspectives, considering topic-focus development and discourse structure, and an empirical study of discourse segmentation. The chapters not only describe each author's favorite burning issue in discourse but also provide a fascinating view of the research methodology and style of argumentation in each field.
Ch. 1Issues of Relevance for Discourse Analysis: Contingency in Action, Interaction and Co-Participant Context3Ch. 2Types of Structure: Deconstructing Notions of Constituency in Clause and Text39Ch. 3Interaction and Syntax in the Structure of Conversational Discourse: Collaboration, Overlap, and Syntactic Dissociation67Ch. 4The Information Structure of the Sentence and the Coherence of Discourse97Ch. 5Discourse Coherence and Segmentation111Ch. 6On the Relation Between the Informational and Intentional Perspective on Discourse139Ch. 7Empirical Analysis of Three Dimensions of Spoken Discourse: Segmentation, Coherence, and Linguistic Devices161Authors' Biographies195Index201
