Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Perspectives on dialogue in the New Millennium vii
4. Imperatives in dialogue 1
5. Integrating conversational move types in the grammar of conversation 25
6. An HPSG-based representation model for illocutionary acts in crisis talk 43
7. Denial and presupposition 59
8. Between binding and accommodation 79
9. Theories of presuppositions and presuppositional clitics 111
10. Semantic meaning and four types of speech act 135
11. Generalised and particularised implicatures of linguistic politeness 149
12. Models of intentions in language 165
13. Context-dependent interpretation and implicit dialogue acts 179
14. Notes on analysing context 193
15. A basic system for multimodal robot instruction 215
16. An information state approach in a multi-modal dialogue system for human-robot conversation 229
17. Dialogue understanding in dynamic domains 243
18. An information state update approach to collaborative negotiation 271
19. Resolving Underspecification using Discourse Information 287
20. On coordinating interpretations — optimality and rational interaction 307
21. Modal particles and the common ground 335
22. (Non-)Temporal concepts conveyed by before , after , and then in dialogue 351
23. Name index 379
24. Subject index 383