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The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker's intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretation of coreferential vs. disjoint reference, the role of intonation, syntactic form and animacy in reference understanding, and the way in which general principles of utterance interpretation constrain possible interpretations of referring expressions. The collection arises from a workshop on reference and referent accessibility which was held at the 4th International Pragmatics Conference in Kobe, Japan, July 25-30, 1993.

Linguistics --- Pragmatics --- Reference (Linguistics) --- Référence (Linguistique) --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Language arts --- Signification (Linguistics) --- Onomasiology --- Semantics --- Reference (linguistique)

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What we say always consists of prior words, structures and meanings that are combined in new ways and re-used in new contexts for new listeners. In this book, Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language - presenting 'who' we are talking about (the referent) and 'what happened' to them (their actions and attributes) in a narrative - and explores how this presentation alters in relation to emergent forms and meanings. Drawing on examples from both face-to-face talk and public discourse, she analyses a variety of repairs, reformulations of referents, and retellings of narratives, ranging from word-level repairs within a single turn-at-talk, to life story narratives told years apart. Bringing together work from conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, cognitive semantics, pragmatics, and variation analysis, In Other Words will be invaluable for scholars wishing to understand the many different factors that underlie the shaping and re-shaping of discourse over time, place and person.

Reference (Linguistics) --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Sociolinguistics. --- Référence (Linguistique) --- Narration --- Sociolinguistique --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Reference (Linguistics). --- Référence (Linguistique) --- Sociolinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Signification (Linguistics) --- Onomasiology --- Semantics --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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This volume presents important results of the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) "Situated Artificial Communicators," which was funded by grants from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for more than twelve years. The contributions focus on different aspects of human-human and human-machine interaction in situations which closely model everyday workplace demands. The authors are linguists, psycho- und neurolinguists, psychologists and computer scientists at Bielefeld University. They jointly tackle questions of information processing in task-oriented communication. The role of key notions such as context, integration (of multimodal information), reference, coherence, and robustness is explored in great depth. Some remarkable findings and recurrent phenomena reveal that communication is, to a large extent, a matter of joint activity. The interdisciplinary approach integrates theory, description and experimentation with simulation and evaluation.

Context (Linguistics) --- Cohesion (Linguistics) --- Reference (Linguistics) --- Psycholinguistics. --- Computational linguistics. --- Psycholinguistics --- Mathematical linguistics --- Pragmatics --- Contexte --- Cohérence discursive --- Référence (Linguistique) --- Psycholinguistique --- Linguistique informatique --- Automatic language processing --- Language and languages --- Language data processing --- Linguistics --- Natural language processing (Linguistics) --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Signification (Linguistics) --- Coherence (Linguistics) --- Cohesiveness (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Situation (Linguistics) --- Data processing --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Context --- Applied linguistics --- Cross-language information retrieval --- Multilingual computing --- Thought and thinking --- Onomasiology --- Semantics --- Discourse analysis --- Neurolinguistics. --- psycholinguistics.