Publications

Publication details [#25505]

Airenti, Gabriella, Bruno G. Bara and Marco Colombetti. 1993. Failures, exploitations and deceits in communication. Journal of Pragmatics 20 (4) : 303–326.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication breakdown | deceiving | dialogue | inferencing | knowledge representation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper proposes a standard model of communication that can equally account for non-standard and deceitful language use, providing a first validation of the model's pragmatic and general world knowledge structures and inference processes.