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Publication details [#39073]

Ariel, Mira. 1988. Retrieving propositions from context: Why and how. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (5-6) : 567–600.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | discourse | interpretation | proposition

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper deals with retrieving propositions from context as a crucial part of discourse interpretation. It examines the marking of syntactically independent propositions as background for other, normally adjacent utterances.