A discourse production model for 'twenty questions'

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A discourse production model for 'twenty questions'

Michael D. Fortescue

(Pragmatics & beyond : an interdisciplinary series of language studies, I:2)

J. Benjamins, 1980

  • pbk.

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A discourse production model for "twenty questions"

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Bibliography: p. [129]-131

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Key to symbols and abbreviations
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. 1. Interrogatives and questions: Form versus function
  • 4. 2. Responses to questions & other discourse acts
  • 5. 3. Indirect realizations of discourse acts
  • 6. 4. Discourse analysis for 'Twenty Questions
  • 7. 5. Frames & demons: An approach to procedural modelling
  • 8. 6. Modelling individual game utterance
  • 9. 7. Strategies & wider cognitive aspects of the model
  • 10. Footnotes
  • 11. References
  • 12. Appendix 1. The game rules
  • 13. Appendix 2. The question strategy flow diagram
  • 14. Appendix 3. Sample Games

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