Building Context with Intonation

  • Authors:

  • Thorstein Fretheim;Wim A. van Dommelen

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CONTEXT '99 Proceedings of the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory (RT), the relevance of a given utterance in discourse is treated as given, while the context which the relevance of the utterance depends on is treated as a variable to be actively sought and selected by the hearer. This paper explores how the speaker's choice of intonation - in this case Norwegian intonation - can facilitate the hearer's inferential derivation of the contextual premisses needed to obtain the intended contextual effects.