Discourse structure relations can be used to establish collaborative discourses within a cultural digital library. Ranging from factual to more interpersonal levels they describe the intended relations between data and metadata objects, especially annotations. Pragmatics aspects are covered by communicative acts, which complement the discourse structure relations and provide means for metacommu...

We discuss data involving the temporal structure of connected discourse. Questions are raised about the relation between clause order in discourse and causal order in the world, and about the coherence of certain discourses. We maintain that interpretation is contextually in uenced by knowledge of the world and of pragmatics, and that the role of this knowledge should be formalised via a defeas...

When looking at the original data analysis, we see a variety of approaches used to examine the discourse data of focus. The analysis is rich and includes a wide array of features. Conversely, the three single perspective analyses conducted for this Forum each drew upon different linguistic details to support their conclusions with different insights. It is important to consider how different ap...

Intersentential elliptical utterances occur frequently during information-seeking dialogs in task domains. This paper presents a pragmatics-based framework for interpreting such utterances. Discourse expectations and focusing heuristics are used to facilitate recognition of an information-seeker's intent in uttering an elliptical fragment. The ellipsis is comprehended by identifying both the as...

I present a unified account of interpretation preferences of stressed and unstressed pronouns in discourse. The central intuition is the Complementary Preference Hypothesis that predicts the interpretation preference of a stressed pronoun from that of an unstressed pronoun in the same discourse position. The base preference must be computed in a total pragmatics module including commonsense pre...

The book entitled "Pragmatics of Social Media" was edited by Christian Hoffmann and Wolfram Bublitz published in 2017. This is the 11th volume “Handbooks Pragmatics” series which consists 13 separate volumes, entire provides an ample overview field language studies, especially about Pragmatics. book, for first time Germany, publisher De Gruyter Mouton. has 724 pages consisting 5 (five) subjects...

In this paper, we explore the interaction between lexical semantics and pragmatics. We argue that linguistic processing is informationally encapsulated and utilises relatively simple ‘taxonomic’ lexical semantic knowledge. On this basis, defeasible lexical generalisations deliver defeasible parts of logical form. In contrast, pragmatic inference is openended and involves arbitrary real-world kn...