Abstract Following and extending Searle’s speech act theory, both Pragma-Dialectics the Linguistic Normative Model of Argumentation characterize argumentation as an illocutionary act. In these models, successful performance arguing depends on securing uptake, effect that, according to Searlean account, characterizes any However, in my view, there is another kind involved arguing, which affects ...

The two principal areas of natural language processing research in pragmatics are belief modelling and speech act processing. Belief modelling is the development of techniques to represent the mental attitudes of a dialogue participant. The latter approach, speech act processing, based on speech act theory, involves viewing dialogue in planning terms. Utterances in a dialogue are modelled as st...

/^\N tlie outcome of the Guildhall Conference Dr. Brackenbury and his colleagues of the Insurance Acts Committee and the representatives of the Approved Societies, the Insurance Committees, and the chemists are warmly to be congratulated. Equally a subject for congratulation is the spirit in which?disregarding the silly suggestions that the doctors had some sinister motive in calling this Confe...

A sizeable body of research into instructed pragmatics roots from the noticing hypothesis: comparing im- plicit and explicit instruction. It is only recently that other theories, including the output hypothesis, have been researched as possible explanations of interlanguage pragmatic development. Pursuing the same line of research, the present study addressed the impact of collaborative o...

There are several debates around why Socrates executed but none of them has explained why he executed at seventy. I think Socratic hubris can explain it. In fact, if we refer to “earlier Socrates” dialogues that cover life of Socrates from youth to seventy years, it is obvious that Socrates on effort to find and present a good life appealed to speech and used it to cross-examine Athenians. Howe...

Everyday conversation requires listeners to quickly recognize verbal actions, so-called speech acts, from the underspecified linguistic code and prepare a relevant response within the tight time constraints of turn-taking. The goal of this study was to determine the time-course of speech act recognition by investigating oscillatory EEG activity during comprehension of spoken dialog. Participant...

In this paper, a corpus-based fuzzy hidden Markov model (FHMM) is proposed to model the speech act in a spoken dialogue system. In the training procedure, 29 FHMM’s are defined and trained, each representing one speech act in our approach. In the identification process, the Viterbi algorithm is used to find the top M candidate speech acts. Then Bayes’ decision criterion, which stores the relati...