NOW : A Discourse-Based Theory

Julie Hunter (1, 2, 3)

1 ALPAGE - Analyse Linguistique Profonde à Grande Echelle ; Large-scale deep linguistic processing
2 IRIT-MELODI - MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours
3 IJN - Institut Jean-Nicod

This paper offers a semantic theory of uses of "now" in which "now" refers to a time introduced in discourse. I argue that the interpretation of an anaphoric use of "now" is determined by the rhetorical structure of the discourse in which the token of "now" figures.

Mots clés: NOW; rhetorical structure; anaphora; discourse structure

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Julie Hunter. NOW : A Discourse-Based Theory. Aloni, Maria; Roelofsen, Floris; Sassoon, Galit Weidman; Schulz, Katrin; Kimmelman, Vadim. Logic, Language and Meaning : 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 19-21, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, pp.371-380, 2012, 978-3642314810. ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_38⟩. ⟨hal-03260622⟩