Personal: [ Home Page ][ Who is Bill Mann ][ Recent Writings ]
Dialogue: [ Dialogue ][ Introduction to DGT ][ Old DGT][ Current DGT ]
[ Method of Analysis ][A Collection of Analyses][ Small Corpus ]
RST: [ About RST ][ Analysis Posting Experiment ][ RST General Website ]
Communication: [ Linguistics and Communication ]
Bill Mann's Linguistic Home Page
Expanded and Reorganized: August 2001 This page is a personal linguistically oriented home page at USC. It is the only place where new personal linguistic work appears. It also carries some old previously inaccessible work.
Is this the Bill Mann you are thinking of, William C. Mann? There are quite a few people called Bill Mann. This one was at USC/ISI in California starting in 1973, was active in ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), is semiretired but actually an active part of Summer Institute of Linguistics and working in the broad area of discourse linguistics and communication. Also active presenting new work at linguistics conferences. For more detailed contact information, along with references to work before 1999, check here:
To explore active and past work on dialogue , check here:
Dialogue: Theory and Corpus, New and Old
Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST): This is an active thread of prior work, but also the focus of some recent work. To see more about that, click here:
Language and Communication: I have a strong interest in the topic of communication as understood through linguistics. To see some ideas on this, click here:
This entire website is under copyright © by William C. Mann, 2000, 2001