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Publication details [#23445]

Kess, Joseph F. and Ronald A. Hoppe. 1985. Bias, Individual differences, and 'shared knowledge' in ambiguity. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (1) : 21–39.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | disambiguation | lexical ambiguity | mutual knowledge

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Annotation

The detection and resolution of ambiguity are discussed in psycholinguistic terms. Two types of shared knowledge are said to be relevant: a generally shared world knowledge and a shared metalinguistic knowledge in terms of ability.