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Quotation in Dialogue

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Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology ((PEPRPHPS,volume 15))

Abstract

Quotation is ubiquitous in natural language (NL). Recent grammars that take a dialogical view on the formal and semantic properties of NLs (Ginzburg, The interactive stance: meaning for conversation. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012; Gregoromichelaki et al. Dialog Discourse 2(1):199–233, 2011; Eshghi et al. Feedback in conversation as incremental semantic update. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2015), Queen Mary University of London, UK April 2015, 261–271, 2015) indicate that quotation mechanisms need to be integrated within the purview of standard grammatical frameworks since such mechanisms are crucially involved in metacommunicative conversational interaction. Accordingly, the account presented in Ginzburg and Cooper (J Logic Lang Inf 23(3):287–311, 2014, G&C) provides syntactic analyses, denotations, and pragmatic constraints for quotational constructions that make use of grammatical entities independently needed for the analysis of conversation. However, despite the great advances achieved by G&C, the construction-based grammar employed lacks essential integration of the psycholinguistically grounded observation that NL use relies crucially on incremental/predictive processing with context integration at each word-by-word processing stage. For this reason, certain data showing the grammatical continuum underpinning various quotational constructions as well as interactions between quotation mechanisms and conversational phenomena (split-utterances, Gregoromichelaki et al. Dialog Discourse 2(1):199–233, 2011) are not amenable to G&C’s discrete constructional approach. Based on this inadequacy of even such a state-of-the-art, comprehensive model, this chapter argues that a satisfactory account of the function of quotational devices cannot be given within standard NL theories involving the division of labour between syntax and semantics/pragmatics. Instead, it adopts a dynamic, incremental perspective that takes joint action as the basis for the definition of the grammar as advocated within Dynamic Syntax (DS, Kempson et al. Dynamic syntax: the flow of language understanding. Blackwell, Oxford, 2001) updated with the integration of some of G&C’s proposed formal constructs (DS-TTR, Purver et al. Splitting the I’s and crossing the you’s: Context, speech acts and grammar. In Proceedings of SemDial 2010 (PozDial), Poznan, Poland, 2010; Eshghi et al. Feedback in conversation as incremental semantic update. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2015), Queen Mary University of London, UK, April 2015, 261–271, 2015).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Incrementality here refers to the psycholinguistic notion of a stimulus’ multi-level analysis piece-by-piece as it is temporally encountered (see e.g. Marslen-Wilson 1973; Steedman 1992; Tanenhaus et al. 1995; Chater et al. 1995).

  2. 2.

    Elements in the data that constitute the main focus of a claim appear shaded in the examples. Bold font indicates additional highlighting.

  3. 3.

    PTT is not an acronym but somehow composed out of the names of its inventors.

  4. 4.

    For quotation of thoughts, see Maier (2017).

  5. 5.

    At least not until recently; for some preliminary moves in this direction see Ginzburg et al. (2014).

  6. 6.

    This characterisation is related to Martin-Loef’s “propositions as types” implementation. Hence run(john) is a type of events and it correctly classifies events that constitute “proofs” of John’s running (see Ranta 1994: chapter 2).

  7. 7.

    Note that this use of the term ‘sign’ does not coincide with that of Cappelen and Lepore (2007: chapter 12).

  8. 8.

    The term pure quotation here follows G&C’s usage, namely it refers to citation. For objections to this usage, see Saka (2013: 939).

  9. 9.

    Recanati speaks of the “language” of the context (2010: 190).

  10. 10.

    Note that to this a new speech-act specification will eventually be added to the effect that the final (schematic) content will come out as Assert(Speaker, (Ask(x,q)) for a (schematic) sentence like ‘Johnx asked q’.

  11. 11.

    The eventual content derived will again be Assert(Speaker, (Ask(x,q)).

  12. 12.

    As a reviewer notes, there are various other subcategorisation possibilities for such verbs which are not discussed here.

  13. 13.

    This does not imply that quotation marks are necessary for such uses. It is just that they constitute signals that facilitate the alternative interpretations indicated (see also Saka 2003/2005). In a particular context of use, their presence is not required for such interpretations to be possible.

  14. 14.

    Such a process does not have to be conceived in a Gricean manner as inference driven by the need to derive the speaker’s intention. Instead it can be implemented mechanistically in the grammar in the sense, explained later, that the hearer understands the speaker’s actions through mirroring these actions as specified by her/his own grammar (see Gregoromichelaki et al. 2011).

  15. 15.

    Two analyses for names currently co-exist in DS: (a) as constants resulting from the contextual enrichment of metavariables introduced by names, and (b) as iota-terms, namely terms carrying uniqueness implications and descriptive content. Here no stance is taken on this issue as it does not affect current concerns.

  16. 16.

    For eliminating worlds from the semantics, replacing them with more psycholinguistically plausible TTR contents in terms of (types of) situations, see Cooper (2005). Here we maintain the more conservative view for brevity of exposition.

  17. 17.

    The differentiation context vs. content fields is for exposition purposes only, just for the convenience of shortening reference to fields in the displays; it does not signify any substantial claim regarding any qualitative differentiation among the parameters handled. In TTR there is always an intuitive inclusion of the context in that, via the notion of dependent types, subsequent fields can depend on elements introduced previously (up along the vertical dimension in record types) but not the other way round. In terms of expressivity, reference to a value in some record (type) can be indicated via the definition of paths leading to specific values; we show such paths with dots separating the sequence of steps, for example r.l 1 .l 2 , refers to the value of label l 2 which provides the value of l 1 in record (type) r. In the displays here, the various fields are freely simplified and condensed in various ways for uncluttered illustration of the relevant points.

  18. 18.

    Note that ‘words’ in DS-TTR are conceptualised as phonological/graphemic/signed shapes, i.e. stimuli that serve as the triggers for DS-TTR actions; not, as usual, ‘signs’, or ‘expressions’ (Cappelen and Lepore 2007), or phonology/syntax/semantics feature bundles (cf. Saka (2011) for discussion about the nature of linguistic elements, leading to distinct conclusions).

  19. 19.

    The initial arrow carrying a word string illustrates the process of scanning, the process of recognising stimuli as triggers of lexical macros. Subevents are sequentially numbered through subscripts and further subscripts can be used for mnemonic purposes (the subscripts s, a here stand for speaker, addressee but will not be maintained further to avoid confusion with occurrences of subscripts s on types where they indicate the subtype of type e (entities) that are situations (type e s ).

  20. 20.

    Bold lower case variables in the lexical macros indicate rule-level variables that unify with specified values on the current tree descriptions (parse states). These values are then used in the further execution of the macro (for formal explication see Kempson et al. 2001: 90–91, 311).

  21. 21.

    In the illustration of such phenomena, in my view, scripted dialogue provides valuable evidence because such occurrences cannot easily be attributed to speech errors.

  22. 22.

    Note that this also shows that the above mentioned context vs. content distinction is indeed artificial and hence present here only for simplicity of display purposes. The truth values of “metalinguistic” statements rely on conceptualisations of the instantiation of implicit contextual variables.

  23. 23.

    Metalinguistic judgements (involving concepts like ‘sentence’, ‘word’, etc.) involve G-dependent types that range over conceptualisations of NL-use that reflect folk-linguistic conceptions but do not necessarily correspond with the analysts’ grammar of a particular language (unless of course the discourse involves discussion of exactly such a grammar). The actual processing model (the grammar) used (unconsciously) for processing an utterance will be captured by the rule-level variable indicated as g in the quotation-related processing actions later. Unlike G&C, this is an essential reservation for the DS-TTR formalism which does not license form-meaning pairs (“expressions”) but, instead, interlocutors’ performance, i.e., the production and interpretation of actions. Any reification of (part of) the products of such actions is then necessarily the outcome of some coercion and reification of the actual language use.

  24. 24.

    The representations here employ so-called manifest fields. The notation employing the equality sign is abbreviatory for a singleton type constructor (see e.g. Cooper 2012; Ginzburg 2012), indicating subtypes of some type restricted to a single member, that is, only the relevant value mentioned. So, for example, x =john : e means that the value of label x is of the subtype of type e whose unique witness is the individual John.

  25. 25.

    The notation employing a dot indicates a path to a value, e.g. r.tn indicates that the value needed is to be found as the value of label tn in record (type) r (see also fn. 24). (Note that this use of the dot notation is different from its use in separating the λ-bound variable [plus restrictions in TTR] from the function expression, e.g. λx:[x =john : e]. Arrive′x)

  26. 26.

    For the potential of such quoted strings to function as Ns or other categories rather than NPs (e.g. The whys raised by this issue. These are not ‘I really should’ radishes…. (Clark and Gerrig 1990, from Jon Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle)), see De Brabanter (2005b, 2013).

  27. 27.

    Like x, a i,..., a i+n are also rule-level variables that become bound to whatever individual actions the current state provides; see fn. 19.

  28. 28.

    As we saw, the position currently under development is indicated by a ‘pointer’, ◊, which is what accounts for variable word-orders.

  29. 29.

    According to DS-TTR, case affixes in morphologically rich languages impose the prediction/goal of an appropriate tree-structural position to accommodate the conceptual content contributed by the linguistic element carrying it.

  30. 30.

    When “focussing attention” is explicitly conceptualised, it is represented in DS-TTR by introducing additional inferentially derived propositional or sub-propositional contents as linked structures, the representational device used for the processing of adjuncts like relative clauses, conditionals etc. (see Kempson et al. 2001; Cann et al. 2005; Gregoromichelaki 2006).

  31. 31.

    Alternative options in a lexical entry are listed as embedded in ELSE statements, before abort is encountered.

  32. 32.

    As mentioned earlier, make, go, put, run, etc. are elementary DS actions processing strings and building conceptual structure. They are modelled via accessibility relations among information states in the Dynamic Logic underpinning DS (see Kempson et al. 2001: chapter 9; Cann et al. 2007) The specifications object/subject/predicate-node are just schematic name abbreviations to avoid the clutter of presenting actual DS-TTR step-by-step actions and modalities.

  33. 33.

    Some collections of sequences of actions are indicated as freely ordered or optional through bracketing to account for variable word-orders.

  34. 34.

    Note that due to the implementation of incremental licensing, parsing/generation in DS-TTR can be initiated from any subpropositional stage, e.g. here starting with the requirement to build a predicate (?Ty(e → t)).

  35. 35.

    Complementisers in DS-TTR do not themselves contribute content that appears on treenodes, they just execute procedural functions of introducing constraints on what can occupy nodes or predictions of upcoming input.

  36. 36.

    Further similarity requirements could be introduced following G&C’s definition of similarity relations; the complications mentioned by Cappelen and Lepore (1997), regarding similarity of content rather than replication of contents, could be implemented by loosening the same-type restriction through appealing to the subtyping relation.

  37. 37.

    As an anonymous reviewer points out, there is potential for overgeneration in this overall approach. However, in my view, this should be handled on a case-by-case basis, given observed particularities of languages and constructions, not as systemic architectural grammatical constraints (unless there is solid evidence for the latter), which is what I am concerned with here.

  38. 38.

    Goal-directedness should not be construed as consciously or even subconsciously “intentional” in the Gricean sense. All (subpersonal) DS-TTR grammatical operations are goal-directed in the sense that predictions of the next perceptual input are system-generated and, accordingly, constrain which input will be sought and how such input will be accommodated. For arguments against the Gricean construal see Gregoromichelaki et al. (2011), Gregoromichelaki (2013b), Gregoromichelaki et al. (2013b), and Pickering and Garrod (2004); see also Saka (2003/2005) for similar views regarding the processing of quotation.

  39. 39.

    I wish to thank all my collaborators to the DS-TTR project: Ruth Kempson, Ronnie Cann, Stelios Chatzikyriakidis, Arash Eshghi, Pat Healey, Julian Hough, Chris Howes, Greg Mills, Matt Purver, and Graham White. I am especially grateful to Paul Saka for various suggestions, comments, invaluable editorial assistance and tremendous support. In addition, I am very thankful to an anonymous reviewer for insightful comments, data, and further sources of information. I acknowledge support from the ESRC (Grant ESRC-RES-062-23-0962).

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Gregoromichelaki, E. (2017). Quotation in Dialogue. In: Saka, P., Johnson, M. (eds) The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quotation. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68747-6_8

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