TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yoshida,Etsuko
TI  - Referring expressions in English and Japanese: patterns of use in dialogue processing 
T2  - Pragmatics & beyond
SN  - 9789027286659
AV  - P298 .Y67 2011eb
U1  - 495.6/5 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Pub. Co.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Topic and comment
KW  - Noun phrase
KW  - English language
KW  - Grammar, Comparative
KW  - Japanese
KW  - Japanese language
KW  - English
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Sujet et prédicat
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Referring Expressions in English and Japanese; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations used in glosses; List of tables; List of figures; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Approaches to referring expressions; Chapter 3. Approaches to deictic expressions; Chapter 4. Data collection; Chapter 5. Centering and dialogue; Chapter 6. Referring expressions and local coherence of discourse; Chapter 7. Referring expressions and global discourse structure; Chapter 8. Collaborative nature of referring and structuring in discourse; Chapter 9. ConclusionAppendix A. The samples of English and Japanese Map Task Dialogues; Appendix B. Conventions in transcripts; References; Index
N2  - It is a major challenge for linguists to explore the relations between referential choice and the discourse structure in dialogues, because, unlike written modes of discourse, dialogue as an interactional mode of discourse needs careful treatment for linguistic analysis. This book investigates how discourse entities are linked with topic chaining and discourse coherence by showing that the choice and the distribution of referring expressions is correlated with center transition patterns in the centering framework. It provides original empirical research into the use of referring expressions in
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