Selected publications (see also full list)

Pragmatics, semantics, ambiguity, poetry

Dafydd Gibbon, 2020-12-10


1976

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1976). Performatory categories in contrastive intonation analysis. In: D. Chiţoran, ed. (1976). Proc. Second International Conference of Contrastive Linguistic Projects. Bucharest: Bucharest U.P. 145-156.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (1976). Perspectives of Intonation Analysis. Bern, Lang. (Diss. U Göttingen.) [PDF]


1981

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1981). Metalocutions, structural types and functional variation in English and German. Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 12, 1980:17-39. [PDF]


1982

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1982). Violations of Frege's Principle and their significance for contrastive semantics. Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 14, 5-24. [PDF]


1983

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1983). Intonation in context. An essay on metalocutionary deixis. In: Gisa Rauh, ed., Essays on Deixis. Tübingen: Narr. 1983:195-218.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd and Margret Selting (1983). Intonation und die Strukturierung eines Diskurses. In: Special issue: Wolfgang Klein, ed., Intonation. Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (LiLi) 13 (49). Göttingen: Vandenhoek and Ruprecht, 53-73. [PDF]


1984

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1984). Intonation as an adaptive process. In: Dafydd Gibbon, Helmut Richter, eds. (1984). Intonation, Accent and Rhythm. Studies in Discourse Phonology. Berlin: de Gruyter, 165-192.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd, Helmut Richter (1984). Phonology and Discourse: a Variety of Approaches. In: Dafydd Gibbon and Helmut Richter, eds. (1984). Intonation, Accent and Rhythm. Studies in Discourse Phonology. Berlin, de Gruyter, 1-9.

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd, Helmut Richter, eds. (1984). Intonation, Accent and Rhythm. Studies in Discourse Phonology. Berlin, de Gruyter.


1985

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1985). Context and variation in two-way radio discourse. In: Charles A. Ferguson, ed. Discourse Processes 8,4:391-420. [PDF]


1987

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1987). The role of discourse in intonation theory. In: Wolfgang Dressler, ed. (1984), Phonologica 1984. Cambridge, C.U.P. and Poznan, Adam-Mickiewicz-University Press. 49-58.


1988

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1988). Intonation and discourse. In: Janos Petöfi, ed. (1988), Text and Discourse Constitution. Berlin: de Gruyter. 3-25.


1989

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd, Ewa Mioduszewska (1989). Reference failure in conversation: an analysis of an example. Acta Philologica, 19:57-84.

1991

  1. Brindöpke, Christel, Dafydd Gibbon, Hagen Langer and Martina Pampel (1991). Prosodische Kohäsion. In: Gert Rickheit, ed. (1991). Kohärenzprozesse. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 137-181.


1995

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1995). Empirical and semiotic foundations of prosodic analysis. In: Uta Quasthoff, ed. (1995), Aspects of Oral Communication, Research in Texttheory. Berlin: de Gruyter.


1997

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd and Claudia Sassen (1997). Prosody-particle pairs as discourse control signs. EUROSPEECH 97, 223-226. [PDF]


2002

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd and Claudia Sassen (2002). Enhanced dialogue markup for crisis talk scenario resources. Proc. LREC 2002, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. [PDF]


2005

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2005). Prerequisites for a Multimodal Semantics of Gesture and Prosody. In: Harry Bunt, ed. (2005). Proc. International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS) 6. [PDF]


2006

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2006). On Apple Pie. An essay in practical semantics. [PDF]

  2. Hughes, Baden, Dafydd Gibbon and Thorsten Trippel (2006). Semantic decomposition of character encodings for linguistic knowledge discovery. In: Myra Spiliopoulou, Rudolf Kruse, Christian Borgelt, Andreas Nürnberger, and Wolfgang Gaul, eds. (2006) From Data and Information Analysis to Knowledge Engineering. Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V. University of Magdeburg, March 9–11, 2005, Heidelberg: Springer, 366-373. [PDF]

  3. Kul, Małgorzata and Dafydd Gibbon (2006). Economy strategies in English and Polish text messages as examples of channel constraints. PLM 2006.

  4. Trippel, Thorsten, Dafydd Gibbon and Baden Hughes (2006). Feature-based encoding and querying language resources with character semantics. Proc. LREC 2006, Genoa. [PDF]

  5. Tseng, Shu-Chuan and Dafydd Gibbon (2006). Discourse functions of duration in Mandarin. Proc. LREC 2006, Genoa. [PDF]


2007

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2007). Chairman's Statement. Panel discussion on Homeland Security. LTC 2007, Poznań. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (2007). Fast food for thought: On truth, negotiation and prosody. Proc. Max-Planck-Institute Workshop Wikifying Research, Leipzig, June 26-27, 2007. [PDF]

  3. Kopp, Stefan, Thorsten Stocksmeier and Dafydd Gibbon (2007). Incremental Multimodal Feedback for Conversational Agents. International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2007): Intelligent Virtual Agents 139-146. [PDF]

  4. Stocksmeier, Thorsten, Stefan Kopp and Dafydd Gibbon (2007). Synthesis of prosodic attitudinal variants in German backchannel ‘ja’. Proc. INTERSPEECH/EUROSPEECH 2007, Antwerp. [PDF]

  5. Trippel, Thorsten Dafydd Gibbon and Baden Hughes (2007). The Computational Semantics of Characters. Proc. Seventh International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-7), Tilburg.


2008

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2008). The Ambiguity of ‘Language’. April Conference , Jagellonian University, Kraków. [Slides] [PDF]


2009

  1. Ahoua, Firmin, Kouamé Adjépole and Dafydd Gibbon (2009). Prosodic domains and tones in speech and songs in Anyi Sanvi. World Congress of African Linguistics. [Abstract] [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (2009). Kleinste deutsche Versschule. Für Alex. Ms. [PDF]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd, Firmin Ahoua, Blé François Kipré and Sascha Griffiths (2009). Discrete level narrative, terraced music: insights from underdocumented Ivorian languages. Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory Conference (LDLTC). [PDF]

  4. Gibbon, Dafydd, François Blé Kipré (2009). Analysis and synthesis of lexical tone in discourse Bete narrative prosody. Abstract, World Congress of African Linguistics. [PDF]


2010

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2010). The ambiguity of ‘ambiguity’: beauty, power, and understanding. In: Maria Jodłowicz and Justyna Leśniewska, eds., (2010), Ambiguity and the Search for Meaning. English and American Studies at the Beginning of the 21st century. Vol. 2: Language and Culture. Kraków: Jagellonian University Press, 33-51.[PDF]


2011

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd, Firmin Ahoua and Adjépole Kouamé (2011). Modelling speech-song relations: an exploratory study of pitch contours, tones and prosodic domains in Anyi. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2011, Hong Kong. [PDF]


2012

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2012). Rusty Lanes and Rosé Skies. Bielefeld: Chou Publishing. [e-book] [PDF]


2013

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2013). Purest White Mantle. Bielefeld: Chou Publishing. [e-book link]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (2013). Seven Trips around the Sun. Bielefeld: Chou Publishing. [e-book link]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd, Dorothea Schoenfeld and Bettina Korte (2013). Dreamtime. Bielefeld: Chou Publishing. [e-book link]


2020

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2020). Purest White Mantle. Bielefeld: Chou Publishing. [book link]