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Publication details [#1642]

Bossuyt, Alain. 1981. The relevance of mutual knowledge in questions. Linguistics in the Netherlands 1981 : 141–147.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

given vs. new information | interrogative1 | mutual knowledge | relevance

Person as a subject

Sperber, D. | Wilson, D.

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/avt

Annotation

B. defends the mutual knowledge approach to handle 'new' versus 'old' information, against the principle of 'maximal relevance' as proposed by D. Wilson and D. Sperber.