Bài viết cung cấp thêm những ý kiến trao đổi về sự cần thiết phải thống nhất cách hiểu và sử dụng các thuật ngữ ngôn học sau: (language), (langue), lời nói (speech), tín hiệu (sign), dấu (signal), kí (notation), biểu (symbol), chỉ (index), hình (icon), ước (notational convention); hành động tạo (locutionary act), dĩ (illocutionary (perlocutionary act); âm hệ (phonology) vị (phonemics), phạm trù...

The naturalness and user-friendliness of the utterances generated by the computer when engaging in dialogue with humans is a key point for the success of spoken language interaction-based computer applications. This article addresses the issue by proposing a mechanism for controlling the strength of the illocutionary force conveyed by the utterances produced by the machine. The degree of streng...

Legal document drafting is an essential professional skill for attorneys and judges. To maintain stylistic and substantive consistency and decrease drafting time, new documents are often created by modifying previous documents. This paper proposes a framework for document reuse based on an explicit representation of the illocutionary and rhetorical structure underlying documents. Explicit repre...

We examined changes in fMRI BOLD signal associated with question/statement judgments in an event-related paradigm to investigate the neural basis of processing one aspect of intonation. Subjects made judgments about digitized recordings of three types of utterances: questions with rising intonation (RQ; e.g., "She was talking to her father?"), statements with a falling intonation (FS; e.g., "Sh...

This paper discusses three potential varieties of update: updates to the common ground, structuring updates, and updates that introduce discourse referents. These different types of update are used to model different aspects of natural language phenomena. Not-at-issue information directly updates the common ground. The illocutionary mood of a sentence structures the context. Other updates intro...

Research on human-agent interaction has focused mainly on domains which are conversational in nature, but little work has been done on examining the behavior of interactive agents in domains such as team sports. This paper analyzes utterance behavior in this domain, specifically a virtual basketball game with an agent teammate. The main motivation is to assess the nature of utterances during th...

Directive act of speech in the bourgeois comedy customs from 17th century: Toward modern language and usage patterns? I. Direct formulations This paper is meant as a contribution to Spanish historical pragmatics. It consists pragmalinguistic analysis directive acts five plays so-called introduced Spain by Enlightenment authors second half 18th century. The different linguistic expressions these...

In this article, we analyze five reduced structures in Italian that display morphological agreement between their past participle and internal argument. Three of the have full illocutionary force despite lacking middle field left periphery. We explain fact (and differences with two remaining participial structures) by extending to object cases Chomsky’s (2019) hypothesis clauses are exocentric ...