How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data : Speech Acts and Beyond.

Intro -- How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Previous approaches to pragmatics and discourse -- 1.2 Speech acts -- 1.3 Approaches to corpus-/computer-based pragmatics -- 1.4 Outline of the book -- 1.5 Conventions used in this book -- 2. Computer-based data in pragmatics -- 2.1 Linguistic corpora and pragmatics -- 2.2 Issues and standards in text representation and annotation -- 2.2.1 General computer-based representation -- 2.2.2 Text vs. meta-information -- 2.2.3 General linguistic annotation -- 2.3 Problems and specifics in dealing with spoken language transcription -- 2.3.1 Issues concerning orthographic representation -- 2.3.2 Issues concerning prosody -- 2.3.3 Issues concerning segmental and other features -- 2.3.4 Issues concerning sequential integrity -- 2.3.5 Issues concerning multi-modality -- 3. Data, tools and resources -- 3.1 Corpus data used in the research -- 3.1.1 The SPAADIA Trainline Corpus -- 3.1.2 The selection from Trains 93 -- 3.1.3 The selection from the Switchboard Annotated Dialogue Corpus -- 3.1.4 Discarded data -- 3.1.5 Supplementary data -- 3.2 The DART implementation and its use in handling dialogue data -- 3.2.1 The DART functionality -- 3.2.2 The DART XML format -- 3.3 Morpho-syntactic resources required for pragmatic analysis -- 3.3.1 The generic lexicon concept -- 3.3.2 The DART tagset -- 3.3.3 Morphology and morpho-syntax -- 3.3.4 'Synthesising' domain-specific lexica -- 4. The syntax of spoken language units -- 4.1 Sentence vs. syntactic types (C-Units) -- 4.2 Units of analysis and frequency norming for pragmatic purposes -- 4.3 Unit types and basic pragmatic functions -- 4.3.1 Yes-units -- 4.3.2 No-units -- 4.3.3 Discourse markers.

4.3.4 Forms of address -- 4.3.5 Wh-questions -- 4.3.6 Yes/no- and alternative questions -- 4.3.7 Declaratives -- 4.3.8 Imperatives -- 4.3.9 Fragments and exclamatives -- 5. Semantics and semantico-pragmatics -- 5.1 The DAMSL annotation scheme -- 5.2 Modes -- 5.2.1 Grammatical modes -- 5.2.2 Interactional modes -- 5.2.3 Point-of-view modes -- 5.2.4 Volition and personal stance modes -- 5.2.5 Social modes -- 5.2.6 Syntax-indicating modes -- 5.3 Topics -- 5.3.1 Generic topics -- 5.3.2 Domain-specific topics -- 6. The annotation process -- 6.1 Issues concerning the general processing of spoken dialogues -- 6.1.1 Pre-processing - manual and automated unit determination -- 6.1.2 Fillers, pauses, backchannels, overlap, etc -- 6.1.3 Handling initial connectors, prepositions and adverbs -- 6.1.4 Dealing with disfluent starts -- 6.1.5 Parsing and chunking for syntactic purposes -- 6.2 Identifying and annotating the individual unit types automatically -- 6.2.1 Splitting off and annotating shorter units -- 6.2.2 Tagging wh-questions -- 6.2.3 Tagging yes/no-questions -- 6.2.4 Tagging fragments, imperatives and declaratives -- 6.3 Levels above the c-unit -- 6.3.1 Answers and other responses -- 6.3.2 Echoes -- 6.4 Identifying topics and modes -- 6.5 Inferencing and determining or correcting speech acts -- 7. Speech acts -- 7.1 Information-seeking speech acts -- 7.2 (Non-)Cohesive speech acts -- 7.3 Information-providing and referring speech acts -- 7.4 Negotiative speech acts -- 7.5 Suggesting or commitment-indicating speech acts -- 7.6 Evaluating or attitudinal speech acts -- 7.7 Reinforcing speech acts -- 7.8 Social, conventionalised speech acts -- 7.9 Residual speech acts -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix A. The DART speech-act taxonomy (version 2.0) -- References -- Index.

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