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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456750003321

Autore

Yoshida Etsuko

Titolo

Referring expressions in English and Japanese [[electronic resource] ] : patterns of use in dialogue processing / / Etsuko Yoshida

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-15836-1

9786613158369

90-272-8665-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; ; v. 208

Disciplina

495.6/5

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment

Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun phrase

English language - Grammar, Comparative - Japanese

Japanese language - Grammar, Comparative - English

Discourse analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2008 under the title: Patterns of use of referring expressions in English and Japanese Dialogues.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Referring Expressions in English and Japanese; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations used in glosses; List of tables; List of figures; Chapter 1.  Introduction; Chapter 2. Approaches to referring expressions; Chapter 3. Approaches to deictic expressions; Chapter 4. Data collection; Chapter 5. Centering and dialogue; Chapter 6. Referring expressions and local coherence of discourse; Chapter 7. Referring expressions and global discourse structure; Chapter 8. Collaborative nature of referring and structuring in discourse

Chapter 9. ConclusionAppendix A. The samples of English and Japanese Map Task Dialogues; Appendix B. Conventions in transcripts; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

It is a major challenge for linguists to explore the relations between referential choice and the discourse structure in dialogues, because,



unlike written modes of discourse, dialogue as an interactional mode of discourse needs careful treatment for linguistic analysis. This book investigates how discourse entities are linked with topic chaining and discourse coherence by showing that the choice and the distribution of referring expressions is correlated with center transition patterns in the centering framework. It provides original empirical research into the use of referring expressions in