Preference organization driving structuration: Evidence from Australian Aboriginal interaction for pragmatically motivated grammaticalization

Preference organization driving structuration: Evidence from Australian Aboriginal interaction for pragmatically motivated grammaticalization

Pragmatically-Motivated Utterance Fine-Tuning in Human-Computer Dialogue

The naturalness and user-friendliness of the utterances generated by the computer when engaging in dialogue with humans is a key point for the success of spoken language interaction-based computer applications. This article addresses the issue by proposing a mechanism for controlling the strength of the illocutionary force conveyed by the utterances produced by the machine. The degree of streng...

From Virtual Organization to E-Business: Transformational Structuration

This article shows how the technical hype of 1990s has been transformed into the e-business organizations at the beginning of the 21st century. The authors took an interpretive stance in this study, grounded theory, and investigated the ontology of virtual organization by the metaphorical analysis. The metaphorical analysis adopted in this study provides the analytical power to conceptualize th...

A Note on Measuring Preference Structuration

The concept of preference structuration not only provides possible escape-routes from socialchoice-theoretic impossibility problems, but also points towards ways of formalizing notions of 'pluralism', 'consensus' and 'issue-dimensionality'. The present note introduces two methods of (operationally) measuring preference structuration, giving attention to both their conceptual characteristics and...

Grammaticalization and Semantic Maps: Evidence from Artificial Language Evolution

Semantic maps have offered linguists an appealing and empirically rooted methodology for describing recurrent structural patterns in language development and the multifunctionality of grammatical categories. Although some researchers argue that semantic maps are universal and given, others provide evidence that there are no fixed or universal maps. This paper takes the position that semantic ma...