Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse
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Summary
A new theory of discourse structure that stresses the role of purpose and processing in discourse is explored and various properties of discourse are described, and explanations for the behavior of cue phrases, referring expressions, and interruptions are explored.
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- article
- Published
- 1986-07-01
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- 3,539
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- Open access
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Keywords
Focus (optics), Linguistics, Salient, Discourse analysis, Computer science
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