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Indirect Speech Acts
Nicholas Asher,Alex Lascarides +1 more
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It is shown how a formal semantictheory of discourse interpretation can be used to define speech acts and to avoid murky issues concerning the metaphysics of action.Abstract:
In this paper, we address several puzzles concerning speech acts,particularly indirect speech acts. We show how a formal semantictheory of discourse interpretation can be used to define speech actsand to avoid murky issues concerning the metaphysics of action. Weprovide a formally precise definition of indirect speech acts, includingthe subclass of so-called conventionalized indirect speech acts. Thisanalysis draws heavily on parallels between phenomena at the speechact level and the lexical level. First, we argue that, just as co-predicationshows that some words can behave linguistically as if they're `simultaneously'of incompatible semantic types, certain speech acts behave this way too.Secondly, as Horn and Bayer (1984) and others have suggested, both thelexicon and speech acts are subject to a principle of blocking or ``preemptionby synonymy'': Conventionalized indirect speech acts can block their`paraphrases' from being interpreted as indirect speech acts, even ifthis interpretation is calculable from Gricean-style principles. Weprovide a formal model of this blocking, and compare it withexisting accounts of lexical blocking.read more
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Managing Medical Emergency Calls
TL;DR: The analysis reveals four core types of emotion management practices: call-takers keep themselves calm when managing callers’ social displays of emotions, providing problem solving presentations including emergency response measures to concerns of callers, and emphasising the positive to create hope for callers.
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Conversational exercitives: Something else we do with our words
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new (i.e., previously overlooked) breed of exercitivespeech act (the conversational exercitive), which is a conversational contribution that invokes a rule of accommodation and is therefore an indirect exercitive speech act.
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A Type Composition Logic for Generative Lexicon
TL;DR: A new type calculus is outlined that captures one of the fundamental ideas of GL: providing a set of techniques governing type shifting possibilities for various lexical items so as to allow for the combination of Lexical items in cases where there is an apparent type mismatch.
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AAI predicts patients' in-session interpersonal behavior and discourse: a "move to the level of the relation" for attachment-informed psychotherapy research.
Alessandro Talia,Sarah I. F. Daniel,Madeleine Miller-Bottome,Daniela Brambilla,Denise Miccoli,Jeremy D. Safran,Vittorio Lingiardi +6 more
TL;DR: Patients classified secure and preoccupied showed more contact-seeking behavior than dismissing patients, who avoided emotional proximity more, while preoccupied patients resisted therapists’ help more than did secure and dismissing patients.
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How to do things with words
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Logic and Conversation
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Head-driven phrase structure grammar
Ivan A. Sag,Carl Jesse Pollard +1 more
TL;DR: This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar, introduced in the authors' "Information-Based Syntax and Semantics," and demonstrates the applicability of the HPSG approach to a wide range of empirical problems.