Failures,
exploitations and deceits in communication
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Gabriella
Airent, Bruno G. Bara, Marco Colombetti
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Abstract |
In this paper we sketch the general
lines of a model of an elementary interchange in a dialogue, and concentrate on the
analysis of the dialogue failures and exploitations the model can account for, as well as
on deceitful uses of communication and non-expressive uses of language. We show that
our model of standard communication can explain non-standard uses of language without
special adaptation. In this way we can account for a variety of linguistic phenomena
which are often neglected in formal treatments of dialogue, and provide a first validation
of the knowledge structures and inference processes assumed in the model. |
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Airenti, G.,
B. Bara, & M. Colombetti 1993 Failures, exploitations and deceits in
communication. In Journal of Pragmatics 20/4: 303-26. |