Publications

Publication details [#14085]

Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Linda Thornburg. 1998. A cognitive approach to inferencing in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 30 (6) : 755–769.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | inference | interpreting | scenario

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

As an alternative to a speech-act theoretic or Gricean approach to conversation, the authors present a scenario structure framework which distinguishes between metonymic, indexical and conceptual relationships, thereby constructing natural inference schemata.