On Representing Special Languages with FLBC: Message Markers and Reference Fixing in SeaSpeak

Steven O. Kimbrough () and Yinghui (Catherine) Yang ()
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Steven O. Kimbrough: University of Pennsylvania
Yinghui (Catherine) Yang: University of California at Davis

A chapter in Formal Modelling in Electronic Commerce, 2005, pp 297-324 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract SeaSpeak is “English for maritime communications.” It is a restricted, specially-designed dialect of English used in merchant shipping and accepted as an international standard. This paper discusses, in the context of SeaSpeak, two key problems in the formalization of any such restricted, specially-designed language, viz., representing the illocutionary force structure of the messages, and formalization of such reference-fixing devices from ordinary language as pointing and use of demonstratives. The paper conducts the analysis in terms of Kimbrough’s FLBC agent communication language.

Keywords: Special Language; Propositional Content; International Maritime Orga; Axiom Schema; Illocutionary Force (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26989-4_11

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