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Blum-Kulka, Shoshana. 1988. The inevitability of misunderstandings: Discourse ambiguities. Text 8 (3) : 219–241. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Journal WWW
Annotation
The paper argues for the inevitability of unresolved misunderstandings in ordinary talk. The discussion combines a pragmatic theory-based formal analysis with a more interpretive approach in the analysis of discourse ambiguities in two naturally occurring conversational segments.