Conversationally relevant descriptions

Authors:
Amichai Kronfeld
Affiliations:
Natural Language Incorporated, Berkeley, CA
Venue:
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
1989

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Abstract

Conversationally relevant descriptions are definite descriptions that are not merely tools for the identification of a referent, but are also crucial to the discourse in other respects. I analyse the uses of such descriptions in assertions as conveying a particular type of conversational implicatures. Such implicatures can be represented within the framework of possible world semantics. The analysis is extended to non-assertive illocutionary acts on the one hand, and to indefinite descriptions on the other.