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Publication details [#32016]

Mey, Jacob L. 2003. Context and (dis)ambiguity: a pragmatic view. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (3) : 337–341.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | context | pragmatic interpretation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Rather than regarding language as a repository of, and a transmission device for, factual information, this paper advocates a truly pragmatic view of context and (dis)ambiguity, by situating the facts in their social (and often ambiguous) contexts.