導讀
preface
figures
acknowledgements
1 motivations
  1.1 what this book is, and is not, about
  1.2 motivating rhetorical relations
  1.3 rhetorical relations in corpora
  1.4 conclusions
2 semantic models of discourse interpretation
  2.1 introduction
  2.2 dynamic semantics
  2.3 drss:syntax and semantics
  2.4 construction and underspecification
  2.5 why dynamic semantics is not enough
  2.6 conclusion
3 pragmatic models of discourse interpretation
  3.1 introduction
  3.2 traditional theories of pragmatics
  3.3 cognitive approaches to discourse interpretation
  3.4 other theories that use rhetorical relations
  3.5 empirical approaches to discourse interpretation
  3.6 some concluding remarks
4 the logical form of discourse
  4.1 introduction
  4.2 underspecification and pragmatic supplementation
  4.3 underspecified logical forms for clauses
  4.4 the syntax of the discourse language
  4.5 a language for describing logical forms
  4.6 the vocabulary of discourse relations
  4.7 hierarchical structure and availability
  4.8 the logic of information content
  4.9 unpacking the truth conditions: an example
  4.10 introducing holes into discourse structures
  4.11 conclusion
5 building logical forms for discourse
  5.1 introduction
  5.2 filling in holes
  5.3 the glue language
  5.4 some formal details
  5.5 transferring information into the glue language
  5.6 some default rules for inferring discourse relations
  5.7 inferring discourse relations: some examples
  5.8 putting the pieces together: sdrs update
  5.9 working through a bigger example
  5.10 formulating maximal discourse coherence
  5.11 interpreting presuppositions
  5.12 conclusions
6 the lexicon and discourse structure
  6.1 introduction
  6.2 what is in the lexicon?
  6.3 lexical semantics in review
  6.4 lexical information to discourse structure
  6.5 from discourse structure to lexical interpretation
  6.6 conclusion
7 discourse relations for dialogue
  7.1 introduction
  7.2 why dialogue and monologue are similar
  7.3 some differences between monologue and dialogue
  7.4 sdrt and speech acts
  7.5 technical details of sdrt for dialogue
  7.6 simple relations for dialogue
  7.7 conclusions
8 disputes in dialogue
  8.1 introduction
  8.2 some motivating examples
  8.3 correction: the analysis of one divergent relation
  8.4 settledness
  8.5 an analysis of an extended example
  8.6 conclusion
9 cognitive modelling
  9.1 introduction
  9.2 cognitive modelling for discourse interpretation
  9.3 from cognitive models to discourse structure
  9.4 axioms for discourse relations based on structure
  9.5 applications
  9.6 more implicatures:turn taking
  9.7 conclusions
10 some concluding remarks
  10.1 what we've done
  10.2 the dynamic i.ogic of information content
  10.3 semantic underspeeification
  10.4 discourse update
  10.5 the logic of the lexicon
  10.6 the logic of cognitive modelling
  10.7 comparison with other theories
  10.8 where we go from here
a objections and replies
  a.1 introduction
  a.2 questions of detail
  a.3 questions of principle
b notation index
  b.1 information content:object language
  b.2 information content:metalanguage
  b.3 underspecified information content:the language lulf
  b.4 underspecified information content:metalanguage
  b.5 glue logic: object language
  b.6 glue logic: metalanguage
  b.7 discourse update
  b.8 cognitive modelling language
c the semantics of drt
d glossary of discourse relations
  d.1 introduction
  d.2 content-level relations
  d.3 text structuring relations
  d.4 cognitive-level discourse relations
  d.5 divergent relations
  d.6 metatalk relations
e summary of discourse update
  e.1 summary of the glue-logic axioms
  e.2 discourse update definitions
f some proofs in the glue logic
  f.1 the specificity principle
  f.2 an example involving specificity
references
index
citation index