ATTRIBUTION RELATIONS IN RHETORICAL STRUCTURE ANNOTATION – DATA FROM JAPANESE FICTION

Abstract

This paper is a report of a practical study in annotation of a piece of short fiction in Japanese, as part of a wider research program on text connectives. This time it focuses on relations of Attribution, relatively salient in fiction. Technically Attribution is often filed in the category of Expansion relations, either as Elaboration or Generalization, which does not fully reflect its role in the structure of the text, at least not in fiction. Starting with relations between spoken speech and author’s comment, we propose to treat markings of such kind of relations as a special interface in a text, that is universally polyphonic and comprises, beside quoted dialogue, the layers of mental activity and perception, all brought down to Attribution relations at large.

Keywords

• японский язык
• аннотация
• структура текста
• логико-семантические отношения
• атрибуция
• japanese language
• text structure
• rhetoric relations
• attribution
• annotation