{"pk":30636,"title":"What Makes Language Formal?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses part of the question \"how do we say the same thing in different ways in order to communicate non-literal, pragmatic information?\". Since the style of the text can communicate much information — it may be stuffy, slangy, prissy — generators that seek to satisfy pragmatic, hearer-related goals in addition to simple informative ones must have rules that control how and when different styles are used. But what is \"style\" ? In this paper,formal and informal language is analysed to provide stylistic rules that enable a program to produce texts of various levels of formahty","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53d397fg","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Eduard","middle_name":"H.","last_name":"Hovy","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1987-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30636/galley/20485/download/"}]}