Dialogue Macrogame Theory (DMT)

This website, first announced in July 2002, is on technical description and modeling of human dialogue. It is devoted to the definition and use of Dialogue Macrogame Theory. Except for DDC, which is mentioned below, all of the links to memos and papers and other resources concerning dialogue have been moved onto my personal linguistic web page, which has a section on dialogue.

On DMT, see all the links below.

Dialogue Macrogame Theory:

1. Introduction
2. Entities and Terminology
3. Definitions
   1. The Dialogue Macrogame Abstraction
   2. Particular Dialogue Macrogames
   3. Game Use Acts
   4. Unilaterals
   5. Summary Tables of DMT Entities and Graphic Conventions
4. Analyzed Dialogue Examples
5. The Status of DMT Analyses
6. Doing DMT Analysis

The following, formerly here, is now an independent website devoted to dialogue data finding for research purposes.

Finding Dialogue Transcripts and Records: Links and Methods The Dialogue Diversity Corpus (DDC)

The normal public location for this website is http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~billmann/dialogue.

The support of the University of Southern California is gratefully acknowledged.
This entire web site is Copyright © 2002, 2003: William C. Mann

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