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Clark, Herbert H. and Gregory L. Murphy. 1982. Audience design in meaning and reference. In Ny, Jean-François Le and Walter Kintsch, eds. Language and comprehension. North Holland. pp. 287–299.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

anaphora, comprehension of | audience design | definiteness, comprehension of | meaning, production of | utterance, comprehension of

Annotation

It is argued that speakers design each utterance for specific listeners, and they, in turn, make essential use of this fact in understanding that utterance. This property is called audience design. It is illustrated by analyzing the understanding of definite reference, anaphora, and word meaning.

Translations

. La visée vers l'auditoire dans la signification et la référence.