Information Structure: Towards an integrated formal theory of pragmatics

A framework for pragmatic analysis is proposed which treats discourse as a game, with context as a scoreboard organized around the questions under discussion by the interlocutors. The framework is intended to be coordinated with a dynamic compositional semantics. Accordingly, the context of utteranc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Craige Roberts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2012-12-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/2228