Presuppositions in Spoken Discourse

1 Introduction 1
2 Approaches to Presupposition 5
2.1 How do we identify presuppositions? 6
2.2 Earlier Analyses of Presuppositions 12
2.3 Presuppositions as Anaphors 18
2.3.1 Discourse Representation Theory 18
2.3.2 The Binding Theory 24
2.4 The Satisfaction Theory 34
2.5 Variations on the original binding theory 40
2.5.1 Zeevat (1992) 40
2.5.2 Asher & Lascarides (1998b) 41
2.5.3 Bidirectional OT 43
2.6 Summary 47
3 Data and Method 49
3.1 What can we Learn from Corpus Data? 50
3.2 The London Lund Corpus 51
3.3 The excerpted examples and analysis 55
4 Anaphors and Bound Presuppositions 61
4.1 Anaphors and anaphoric binding 62
4.2 Antecedents in the Corpus 67
4.3 Identifying antecedents 74
4.3.1 Bound presuppositions make more precise references to abstract objects 76
4.3.2 Binding relationship adds rhetorical effect to the message 82
4.3.3 Reactions by other participants point to the binding relationship being perceived 86
4.3.4 The binding relationship needs to be perceived to make the discourse coherent 89
4.4 Presuppositions and Global Discourse Structure 89
4.5 Discussion and Conclusions 95
5 Accommodation and Presupposition 99
5.1 Corpus examples of accommodation 100
5.1.1 Accommodation in the Main DRS 102
5.1.2 Global Accommodation 103
5.1.3 Intermediate and Local Accommodation 105
5.2 Accommodated Information from the Perspective of the Discourse Participants 109
5.2.1 Hearer-new or hearer-known from the perspective of the speaker? 112
5.2.2 Discussion 115
5.3 What characteristics support or hinder ease or tendency to accommodate? 117
5.3.1 Descriptive content licenses accommodation 119