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computational linguistics > pragmatics > universe of discourse

Preferred term

universe of discourse  

Broader concept

Example

  • Because the discourse universe does not contain a suitable antecedent a new entity is introduced. (Gordon & Hendrick, 1999)
  • Consider a discourse universe with three individuals namely Mary John and Ash and assume a situation where it is known that exactly one of them is sleeping. (de Groote & Richard, 2021)
  • Narration introduces an event or series of events into the universe of discourse. (Song, Wang, Fu, Liu, Liu & Hu, 2017)
  • This means that the gestures dedicated to natural multimodal interaction can operate on every object of the graphically represented universe of discourse without unwanted manipulative effects. (Streit, 1997)
  • Thus a discourse universe is created with two distinct entities but without the identifying information that could trigger the construction rule for equivalence. (Gordon & Hendrick, 1999)

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