Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-96751-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 319 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 682 g

Reihe: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics

This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect are treated as cohesion ties contributing to the temporal coherence of a discourse, as well as to the cognitive temporal coherence of the mental representations built in the language comprehension process. As such, it investigates the phenomenon of temporal reference at the interface between corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics and pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, psycholinguistics, natural language processing and machine translation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grisot, Cristina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Formal Semantic-discursive and Pragmatic Assessment of Time.- Corpus-based Contrastive Study of Verbal Tenses.- Experimental Study Using Annotation Experiments.- A Pragmatic Model of Temporal Cohesive Ties.- Temporal Coherence.- Application to Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation.- Conclusion.