In this volume, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. Emphasising the individual perspectives of interlocutors and the function and acceptability of their reasoning in context.
Author(s): Ellen Breitholtz
Series: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 172
City: Leiden
Tags: Language and logic, Reasoning, Enthumeme(logic), Toposes, Conversation analysis
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
