Conversational Coherency*

Conversational Coherency

A major goal of this work is to specify some steps of the process by which participants maintain coherency in their conversations. The underlying element of the analysis is a construct called a 'context space'. Roughly, a group of utterances that refers to a single issue or episode forms the basis for a context space. Superficially a conversation is a sequence of utterances; at a deeper level i...

A Method of Computing Measure for Evaluating Conversational Coherency in E-mail Communication

In this paper, we de ne a measure for evaluating conversational coherency and propose a method of computing it. We de ne a deliberation stream in email communication and construct deliberation structure which the deliberation streams are introduced into. And we de ne discontinuity between utterances as the measure for evaluating conversational coherency by using the deliberation structure, con ...

Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis

In a speech community, people utilize their communicative competence which they have acquired from their society as part of their distinctive sociolinguistic identity. They negotiate and share meanings, because they have commonsense knowledge about the world, and have universal practical reasoning. Their commonsense knowledge is embodied in their language. Thus, not only does social life depend...

Optical coherency matrix tomography

The coherence of an optical beam having multiple degrees of freedom (DoFs) is described by a coherency matrix G spanning these DoFs. This optical coherency matrix has not been measured in its entirety to date--even in the simplest case of two binary DoFs where G is a 4 × 4 matrix. We establish a methodical yet versatile approach--optical coherency matrix tomography--for reconstructing G that ex...

Free Will and Rational Coherency