Reasoning in dialogue: exploring the inferential articulation of speech acts

• Autores: Chenjie Yuan
• Directores de la Tesis: Laia Mayol (dir. tes.), Enric Vallduví Botet (codir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( España ) en 2022
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (presid.), Louise McNally Seifert (secret.), Julie Hunter (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Traducción y Ciencias del Lenguaje por la Universidad Pompeu Fabra
• Materias:
  • Lógica
    • Lógica deductiva
      • Teoría de lenguajes formales
  • Lingüística
    • Lingüística sincrónica
      • Semántica
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
• Resumen

  • This dissertation studies the inferential articulation of speech acts (in particular, assertions and questions) in dialogue, drawing upon two theoretical frameworks, a normative Question Under Discussion (qud) model of discourse and a type-theoretical framework for semantics. It is demonstrated that under a normative inferentialist view of speech acts, the potential of reacting to a speech act can be characterized in terms of the existence of a proper question that bridges the two concerned speech acts, and furthermore, that the rhetorical relation that emerges from this one-turn dialogical interaction can be reduced to a family of qud-relations (i.e., question resolution and question implication). The analyses presented in this dissertation give rise to a more comprehensive qud-model of discourse called RiD (an acronym for ``Reasoning in Dialogue'').