Dialogues

Frage	Antworten
What is a convention?	A regularity in behaviuor: (i) everyone conforms to; (ii)everyone expects everyone else to conform to; (iii) that is arbitrary.
What are speech acts? And why are they important?	Classifications of utterances according to their use. Focus on the use!
Name two important parts of a speech act act	convention and intention
What is discourse?	The general term for lanugage beyond sentence level
Describe coherence	Relations between the utterances that make up the discourse. A discourse is coherent if a reader/hearer can find relations between the utterances that make up the discourse
Name two coherence relations	Causal, narration, resemblance, referential
In what form is the discourse structure?	A tree
What is beyond lingustic conventions?	Intention recognition, for example: A: So, tell me what you think about Sue. B: Wow, isn't the weather nice!

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