Publications
Publication details [#1975]
Carlson, Lauri. 1984. Focus and dialogue games: A game-theoretical approach to the interpretation of intonational focusing. In Vaina, Lucia and Jaakko Hintikka, eds. Cognitive constraints on communication: Representations and processes. Reidel. pp. 295–333. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Annotation
An application of J.Hintikka's game-theoretical approach to dialogue, to an analysis of intonational focusing in discourse. Dialogue games are defined, intonation rules are introduced, and their interaction with semantic rules is considered.