From Speech Acts to Semantics

Mackenzie, Jim

doi:10.2478/slgr-2014-0006

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“…In any serious dialog, participants can rightly demand from each other a certain minimum of consistency (Mackenzie, 2014). Rules can be broken in many different and subtle ways.…”

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The Ouroboros Model Embraces Its Sensory-Motoric Foundations And Learns To Talk

Thomsen

2015

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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The Ouroboros Model proposes a brain inspired cognitive architecture including detailed suggestions for the main processing steps in an overall conceptualization of cognition as embodied and embedded computing. All memories are structured into schemata, which are firmly grounded in the body of an actor. A cyclic and iterative data-acquisition and -processing loop forms the backbone of all cognitive activity. Ever more sophisticated schemata are built up incrementally from the wide combination of neural activity, concurrent at the point in time when the memory is established; i.e., distinct representations are accrued. Later on, an entire schema can be reinstated from diverse subsets of its constituent features. In order to decode or compile ever more elaborate constructions, extant building blocks are concatenated. They are serially linked via common or “connection-attributes” of different representations and symbols, and they are employed for serial perception, processing and action, in particular, also for language production. At various levels, commonalities between different schemata lead to a similar preferred use of their respective tokens and subsequently shared categorizations. Rules, for the concatenation of words, akin to the ones governing chemical reactions, can be abstracted. As special kinds of symbols, words and word-classes along with the whole grammar of a language can thus be seen as a direct consequence of the processes outlined in the Ouroboros Model. Strong emphasis is put on the dimension of time over short intervals during active experience and performance, and, in particular, during interactions with other agents.

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“…In any serious dialog, participants can rightly demand from each other a certain minimum of consistency (Mackenzie, 2014). Rules can be broken in many different and subtle ways.…”

Section: Collaborative Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Ouroboros Model Embraces Its Sensory-Motoric Foundations And Learns To Talk

Thomsen

2015

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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“…Therefore, logic does not bring us as far here as it seems to bring us in sentences' semantics. Semantics may not help us discover the meaning of a word we do not understand, even though it does have a lot to talk about the patterns of meaningfulness that we find in words (Mackenzie, 2014). It cannot help you understand one of the ancient sonnets' meaning because poetic meaning is very distinct from the literal meaning.…”

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Semantics and Pragmatics in Jacinda Ardern’s Speech

Fatmaja¹,

Saragih²

2021

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<p>The objective of this research is to find out: semantic (denotation and connotation), pragmatic (illocutionary act: assertive/representative, directive, commisive, expressive, and declarative), and frequency of occurrence of the semantic and pragmatic aspects. The research object of this study is utterances containing semantic and pragmatic aspects. The data were collected from Jacinda Ardern’s speech on Tuesday, 19 March 2019. The speech was delivered in front of the Parliament after the Christchurch mosque terror attack. The technique used is the noting technique, separating technique, and transferring technique in collecting the data. This research is aimed to analyze the semantic and pragmatic aspects of Jacinda Ardern’s speech. The method used in this research is the qualitative descriptive method that aims to analyze the semantic and pragmatic aspects of Jacinda Ardern’s speech. The research findings as follows: the writer focuses on two aspects of semantic, namely denotation and connotation, and in pragmatic aspects, the writer focuses on the illocutionary act, which is assertive/representative, directive, commisive, expressive, and declarative. After the writer analyzed the data, the result is 1. Semantic aspects: a. denotation (76%), b. connotation (24%). The bigger presentations are denotation because each sentence mostly has literal or primary meaning. 2. Pragmatic aspects (illocutionary): a. assertive (46%), b. directive (12%), c. commisive (17%), d. expressive (8%) and e. declarative (17%). The bigger presentations are assertive speech acts because the speaker is representing reality.</p>

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“…To this end, Lorenzen's system is reformulated in the paper to account for different stances that a player might take in an argument. Then this dialogical system is combined with the formal dialectic of (Hamblin 1970, see also Mackenzie 2014), which provides rules for natural dialogues without fallacies. In this approach, fallacies are understood as violations of some rules.…”

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Dialogue Protocols for Formal Fallacies

Kacprzak

Yaskorska

2014

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This paper presents a dialogue system called Lorenzen-Hamblin Natural Dialogue (LHND), in which participants can commit formal fallacies and have a method of both identifying and withdrawing formal fallacies. It therefore provides a tool for the dialectical evaluation of force of argument when players advance reasons which are deductively incorrect. The system is inspired by Hamblin's formal dialectic and Lorenzen's dialogical logic. It offers uniform protocols for Hamblin's and Lorenzen's dialogues and adds a protocol for embedding them. This unification required a reformulation of the original description of Lorenzen's system to distinguish ''between different stances that a person might take in the discussion'', as suggested by Hodges. The LHND system is compared to Walton and Krabbe's Complex Persuasion Dialogue using an example of a dialogue.

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From Speech Acts to Semantics

Cited by 4 publications

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The Ouroboros Model Embraces Its Sensory-Motoric Foundations And Learns To Talk

The Ouroboros Model Embraces Its Sensory-Motoric Foundations And Learns To Talk

Semantics and Pragmatics in Jacinda Ardern’s Speech

Dialogue Protocols for Formal Fallacies

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