Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue

Ellen Breitholtz, Ph.D. (2015), is Associate Researcher at the University of Gothenburg where she works on formal accounts of language involving enthymematic reasoning and topoi. She also leads a project on reasoning in dialogues involving patients with schizophrenia.

Acknowledgements

List of Figures



1 Micro-Rhetoric in Dialogic Interaction

 1.1 Interaction Based Linguistics

 1.2 Micro-rhetorical Linguistics

 1.3 The Aristotelian Enthymeme

 1.4 Topoi—the Warrants of Enthymemes

 1.5 Linking Enthymeme and Topos

 1.6 Aim and Outline of This Book



2 Enthymematic Reasoning and Pragmatics

 2.1 Introduction

 2.2 Presupposition

 2.3 Conversational Implicature

 2.4 Relevance Theory

 2.5 Anti-inferentialism

 2.6 Discourse Coherence

 2.7 Summary



3 Enthymemes in Dialogue

 3.1 Introduction

 3.2 Using ttr to Analyse Interaction

 3.3 Analysing a Simple Dialogue

 3.4 Introducing Enthymematic Reasoning on the dgb

 3.5 Summary



4 Analysing Enthymematic Dialogue

 4.1 Enthymeme Elicited by Why?

 4.2 Coordinating on Topoi

 4.3 Summary



5 Participating in Enthymematic Dialogue

 5.1 Enthymemes and Cognitive Load

 5.2 Enthymemes and Dialogue Context

 5.3 Conversational Games

 5.4 The Suggestion Game

 5.5 Analysing a Suggestion Dialogue

 5.6 Summary



6 Rhetorical Reasoning in Dialogue

 6.1 A Rhetorical Perspective on Non-monotonicity

 6.2 Drawing on Topoi in Conversation

 6.3 Acquiring Topoi in Interaction

 6.4 Summary



7 Conclusions and Future Work

 7.1 Conclusions

 7.2 Future Work

 7.3 Summary



Appendix 1: Update Rules

Appendix 2: Definitions

References

Index