On the one hand, it is well-known that adverbs raise interface problems, on the other, the architecture of HPSG is well suited for expressing the correlations between aspects of the different linguistic dimensions, treating them in a parallel fashion, and representing all of themwith feature structures. We will study the interaction of scoping with syntactic properties (grammatical function and...

An expressive illocutionary speech act is a in which speaker expresses his thoughts and feelings of being thanking apologizing. Usually, one utterance conveys meaning, but this research, sentence has two to four additional meanings. This phenomenon came from elements outside the that affect presence meaning. The aim present indication can have more than meaning expand theory acts. research used...

Disagreements about what we owe to each other and how live pervade different dimensions of human interaction. We communicate our moral normative views in discourse. These disputes have features that are challenging some semantic theories. This paper assesses recent Stalnakerian communication domains. model conversational context updates made with claims. They also aim explain between people who...

The term 'emoticons'—short for 'emotion icons'—refers to graphic signs, such as the smiley face, that often accompany computer-mediated textual communication. They are most often characterized as iconic indicators of emotion, conveyed through a communication channel that is parallel to the linguistic one. In this article, it is argued that this conception of emoticons fails to account for some ...

We propose a new discrimination schema for illocutionary acts using prosodic features based on experimental results.We performed a series of experiments in which subjects were asked to identify the sentence type and intonation contour of given stimuli. Given the transcribed sentence with contextual information, the subjects were able to identify correctly the sentence type of 85% of 290 sentenc...

This paper describes some computational and linguistical mechanisms in our program written in SIMULA to generate natural language sentences from their underlying logical structures in an extended predicate logic. After the presentation of the augumented logical formalism to deal with illocutionary acts,we explain then the basic devices used in the generation process:semiotic interpretation,orde...

In argumentation-based negotiation the rhetorical illocutionary particles Appeals, Rewards and Threats have implications for the players that extend beyond a single negotiation and are concerned with building (business) relationships. This paper extends an agent’s relationship-building argumentative repertoire with Opinions and Advice. A framework is described that enables agents to model their...