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A Discourse Production Model for 'Twenty Questions'
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This essay is an attempt to build up a plausible model of the cognitive processes behind the behavior exhibited by speaker-hearers in a specific discourse situation.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:2] 1980. ix, 137 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 November 2011
Published online on 21 November 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–vi
- Table of contents | pp. vii–7
- Introduction | pp. 1–10
- 1. Interrogatives and questions: Form versus function | pp. 11–28
- 2. Responses to questions & other discourse acts | pp. 29–46
- 3. Indirect realizations of discourse acts | pp. 47–66
- 4. Discourse analysis for 'Twenty Questions | pp. 67–82
- 5. Frames & demons: An approach to procedural modelling | pp. 83–100
- 6. Modelling individual game utterance | pp. 101–108
- 7. Strategies & wider cognitive aspects of the model | pp. 109–122
- Footnotes | pp. 123–128
- | pp. 129–132
- Appdendixes | pp. 133–137
- Appendix 1. The game rules
- Appendix 2. The question strategy flow diagram
- Appendix 3. Sample Games
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Takemura, Kazuhisa
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