Re: CAFE: cook (& busboy) sketch

[nsn (Nick Nicholas)]

The Seraphim surely rejoiced when jimc@math.ucla.edu spoke thus:

}> Having passed the cafe material along to my friend Zoe Velonis, she penned
}> this. Comments will be passed on to her.
}Oooo, shame, shame!  Not for the voluptuous purple prose, but for the
}organization error in your leader.  Who passed it along?

*smile* And to think that this is the kind of error I routinely pounce upon
in Esperanto text.

}By the way, we have words for morphology, syntax and semantics, but
}what is the name of the level of language organization at which you
}made your error?  

Since this is clearly(ish) not a sentence-level error, but one relating to
a larger text's cohesion (text including context), this is an issue of
pragmatics/discourse analysis. I'm studying discourse analysis at the
moment, and thinking on lojban while we do it... well, things are subtler
than the linguistic traditions which underlie lojban make out.

}I have always used the
}term "organization" to refer to the phase of assigning referents to
}pronouns, and deciding which containing phrase a sub-phrase belongs in,
}but I would imagine that this word is much too vague and that there's a
}specific word commonly used for it.

In what NLP work I've seen, such issues are dealt with under the Discourse
Analysis rubric. Deixis, anaphora etc. lie outside syntax and semantics.

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