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Einführung in die Pragmatik und Diskurs

Reading

Introduction: What is Pragmatics?

Basic reading: Levinson 1983: Chapter 1

Implicatures

Basic reading: Further reading:
  • Davis 1991:
    • Part II: Chapter 4, p.65-76 (Grice's theory of meaning)
    • Part V: Chapter 19, p.305-315 (Grice's theory of implicatures)
    • Part V: Chapter 20, p.316-364 (on distinguishing entailments vs. implicatures)
    • Part V: Chapter 21, p.365-376 (on testing conversational implicatures
  • von Stechow and Wunderlich: Chapter 14;

Information Structure

Basic reading

Reference, familiarity and activation

Basic reading: Further Reading: Gundel et al. 1993; Lambrecht 1994

Anaphoric Reference

Basic Reading:
  • Jurafsky and Martin 2000: Chapter 18
Further reading

Presuppositions

Basic reading:
  • Levinson 1983: Chapter 4;
Further reading:
  • Davis 1991: Chapter 6;
  • von Stechow and Wunderlich: Chapter 13;
  • van der Sandt 1992

Discourse Coherence

Basic reading:
  • Jurafsky and Martin 2000: Chapter 18;
  • Grosz, Pollack and Sidner 1990;
  • Grosz and Sidner 1986;
  • Mann and Thompson 1987

Speech Acts

Basic reading: Jurafsky and Martin 2000: Chapter 19; Levinson 1983: Chapter 5; Davis: Chapter 15

Conversational Structure

Basic reading: Jurafsky and Martin 2000: Chapter 19; Levinson 1983: Chapter 6; Jurafsky and Martin 2000: Chapter 19;


Detailed Reference List (incomplete at the moment)

Stephen C. Levinson.
Pragmatics.
Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
(CoLi Bib.:SEM-PRTX levi 4565)

Steven Davis.
Pragmatics: A Reader.
Oxford University Press, 1991.
(CoLi Bib.:SEM-PRTX, davi 2040)

Arnim von Stechow and Dieter Wunderlich, editors.
Semantik: ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung = Semantics; an international handbook of contemporary research.
Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft = Handbooks of linguistics and communication science. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1991.

Dale, Robert and Reiter, Ehud
Computational Interpretations of the Gricean Maxims in the Generation of Referring Expressions.
Cognitive Science, 19, 1995. PDF

Rob A. van der Sandt.
Presupposition projection as anaphora resolution.
Journal of semantics, 9:333-377, 1992.

Mark   Steedman.
Information Structure and the Syntax-Phonolgy Interface.
Linguistic Inquiry, 31(4):649-689, 2000. GZipped PS
(Hard copy is avaliable in coli library in the following folder: o89 - Baumann - Informational and Semantic Aspects of Information Structure - WS 01-02)

Jeanette   Gundel, Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski.
Cognitive Status and the Form of Referring Expressions in Discourse.
Language, 69:2740307, 1993.
(Hard copy is avaliable in coli library in the following folder: o89 - Baumann - Informational and Semantic Aspects of Information Structure - WS 01-02)

Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin.
Speech and Language Processing. Chapter 18: Discourse.
Prentice Hall. 2000.
(Available in Coli Library.)

Barbara J Grosz, Martha E. Pollack, and Candace L. Sidner.
Discourse.
In Michael L Posner, editor, Foundations of Cognitive Science, pages 437-468. M.I.T. Press, 1989.

Barbara J Grosz and Candace L. Sidner.
Attention, Intentions and the Structure of Discourse
In Computational Linguistics, 12(3):175-204, 1986.

William Mann and Sandra Thompson.
Rhetorical Structure Theory: A theory of text organization.
ISI Reprint Series ISI/RS-87-190, USC Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern Carolina, 1987. Download PDF

Gillian Brown and George Yule.
Discourse Analysis.
Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
(CoLi Bib.: SEM-PRTX brow 515)

Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin.
Speech and Language Processing. Chapter 19: Dialog and Conversational Agents.
Prentice Hall. 2000.
(Available in Coli Library.)