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Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding - Evidence from English and French (Hardcover)
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Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding - Evidence from English and French (Hardcover)
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"This was a different man," said Mr Welbecker. "Listen! This man
was called Hamlet and his uncle had killed his father because he
wanted to marry his mother." "What did he want to marry his mother
for?" said William. "I've never heard of anyone wanting to marry
their mother."* In almost any conversation the meaning of what is
said depends on the listener seeing how some words refer to what
has already been said, and that others must be related to the
characteristics of time, place, or person of the situation around
which the conversation revolves. These modes of reference, anaphora
and deixis respectively, involve surprisingly complicated cognitive
and syntactic processes, which people (normally) perform easily and
unerringly. But they present formidable problems for the linguist
and cognitive scientist trying to explain precisely how
comprehension is achieved. Anaphora and deixis are thus a central
research focus in syntactic theory, while understanding and
modelling their operation in discourse are important targets in
computational linguistics and cognitive science. In this ambitious
work, Francis Cornish sets out an original theory of anaphora and
deixis, and proposes a new and elegant theoretical model to
represent the transfer of meaning in discourse. Dr Cornish
considers anaphoric reference in discourse from both psychological
and linguistic perspectives. He argues that anaphora and deixis are
essentially parts of integrative discourse procedures that
facilitate the linking of representations held in working memory.
He brings together work by linguists, formal semanticists,
psychologists, and researchers in artificial intelligence, as well
as drawing on his own extensive experimental work on a variety of
corpora of different genres in French and English. Anaphora,
Discourse, and Understanding will interest researchers and advanced
students in a variety of fields within and outside linguistics,
including cognitive science, artificial intelligence, syntactic
theory, formal semantics, and the analysis of discourse. [* from
William - The Pirate by Richmal Crompton, London, Macmillan, 1932]
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