Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue The Use of Common Sense Reasoning in Conversation

In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts of enthymemes and topoi, originating in Aristotelian rhetoric and dialectic, and integrates these in a formal dialogue semantic...

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Otros Autores: Breitholtz, Ellen, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV [2020]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; Volume 41.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • ‎Contents
  • ‎Acknowledgements
  • ‎Figures
  • ‎Chapter 1. Micro-Rhetoric in Dialogic Interaction
  • ‎1.1. Interaction Based Linguistics
  • ‎1.1.1. Dialogism
  • ‎1.1.2. Dialogue Semantics
  • ‎1.2. Micro-rhetorical Linguistics
  • ‎1.3. The Aristotelian Enthymeme
  • ‎1.3.1. Aristotelian Rhetoric
  • ‎1.3.2. The Syllogism and the Enthymeme
  • ‎1.4. Topoi-the Warrants of Enthymemes
  • ‎1.4.1. Topoi in Linguistics
  • ‎1.4.2. Topoi as Cultural Indicators
  • ‎1.5. Linking Enthymeme and Topos
  • ‎1.6. Aim and Outline of This Book
  • ‎Chapter 2. Enthymematic Reasoning and Pragmatics
  • ‎2.1. Introduction
  • ‎2.2. Presupposition
  • ‎2.2.1. Accommodation
  • ‎2.3. Conversational Implicature
  • ‎2.4. Relevance Theory
  • ‎2.4.1. Relevance, Enthymemes and Topoi
  • ‎2.5. Anti-inferentialism
  • ‎2.5.1. A Rhetorical View of Anti-inferentialism
  • ‎2.6. Discourse Coherence
  • ‎2.6.1. Conversation Analysis
  • ‎2.6.2. Rhetorical Relations
  • ‎2.7. Summary
  • ‎Chapter 3. Enthymemes in Dialogue
  • ‎3.1. Introduction
  • ‎3.2. Using ttr to Analyse Interaction
  • ‎3.2.1. Some Basic Concepts of ttr
  • ‎3.2.2. Subtyping in ttr
  • ‎3.2.3. The Dialogue Gameboard
  • ‎3.3. Analysing a Simple Dialogue
  • ‎3.4. Introducing Enthymematic Reasoning on the dgb
  • ‎3.4.1. Topoi as Resources for Inventing Arguments
  • ‎3.4.2. Introducing the Enthymeme under Discussion
  • ‎3.5. Summary
  • ‎Chapter 4. Analysing Enthymematic Dialogue
  • ‎4.1. Enthymeme Elicited by Why?
  • ‎4.1.1. Integrate Why?
  • ‎4.1.2. Integrate EnthymemeWhy?
  • ‎4.2. Coordinating on Topoi
  • ‎4.2.1. Integrating Topos
  • ‎4.2.2. Topoi from Underspecified Enthymemes
  • ‎4.2.3. Re-raising Topoi
  • ‎4.2.4. Re-evaluating Topoi
  • ‎4.2.5. Accommodating Resource Topoi
  • ‎4.3. Summary
  • ‎Chapter 5. Participating in Enthymematic Dialogue
  • ‎5.1. Enthymemes and Cognitive Load.
  • ‎5.1.1. Information Redundancy in Dialogue
  • ‎5.1.2. A Rhetorical Approach to IRUs
  • ‎5.2. Enthymemes and Dialogue Context
  • ‎5.3. Conversational Games
  • ‎5.4. The Suggestion Game
  • ‎5.5. Analysing a Suggestion Dialogue
  • ‎5.5.1. Initial Tacit Moves
  • ‎5.5.2. Rules for Updating Private Games
  • ‎5.5.3. Updating the Agenda
  • ‎5.5.4. Drawing on Topoi to Specify Move Content
  • ‎5.5.5. Accommodation of Enthymemes
  • ‎5.6. Summary
  • ‎5.6.1. Enthymemes and Artificial Intelligence
  • ‎Chapter 6. Rhetorical Reasoning in Dialogue
  • ‎6.1. A Rhetorical Perspective on Non-monotonicity
  • ‎6.1.1. The Tweety Triangle
  • ‎6.1.2. The Nixon Diamond
  • ‎6.2. Drawing on Topoi in Conversation
  • ‎6.2.1. The Topoi of Dog Hairs
  • ‎6.2.2. Composition of Topoi and Enthymemes
  • ‎6.3. Acquiring Topoi in Interaction
  • ‎6.4. Summary
  • ‎Chapter 7. Conclusions and Future Work
  • ‎7.1. Conclusions
  • ‎7.1.1. Pragmatic Inference
  • ‎7.1.2. Defining Genres
  • ‎7.1.3. Enthymemes in Conversational AI
  • ‎7.1.4. Accommodation
  • ‎7.1.5. Formalisation
  • ‎7.1.6. Non-monotonic Reasoning
  • ‎7.2. Future Work
  • ‎7.2.1. Experimental and Corpus Studies
  • ‎7.2.2. Enthymematic Reasoning and Probabilistic Inference
  • ‎7.2.3. Theoretical Development
  • ‎7.3. Summary
  • ‎Appendix 1. Update Rules
  • ‎Appendix 2. Definitions
  • ‎References
  • ‎Index of Authors
  • ‎Index of Subjects.