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Dialogue Games - An Approach to Discourse Analysis (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
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Dialogue Games - An Approach to Discourse Analysis (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 17
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This essay constitutes yet another approach to the fields of
inquiry variously known as discourse analysis, discourse grammar,
text grammar, functional 1 syntax, or text linguistics. An attempt
is made to develop a fairly abstract unified theoretical frame work
for the description of discourse which actually helps explain
concrete facts of the discourse grammar of a naturallanguage.2 This
plan is reflected in the division of the study into two parts. In
the first part, a semiformal framework for describing
conversational discourse is developed in some detail. In the second
part, this framework is applied to the functional syntax of
English. The relation of the discourse grammar of Part II to the
descriptive frame work of Part I can be instructively compared to
the relation of Tarskian semantics to model theory. Tarski's
semantics defmes a concept of truth of a sentence in a model, an
independently identified construct. Analogously, my rules of
discourse grammar defme a concept of appropriateness of a sentence
to a given context. The task of the first Part of the essay is to
characterize the relevant notion of context. Although my original
statement of the problem was linguistic - how to describe the
meaning, or function, of certain aspects of word order and
intonation - Part I is largely an application of various methods
and results of philosophical logic. The justification of the
interdisciplinary approach is the simplicity and naturalness of the
eventual answers to specific linguistic problems in Part II."
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