Publications

Publication details [#32067]

Rooy, Robert Van. 2003. Asserting to resolve decision problems. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (8) : 1169–1179.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | attributiveness | context | conversational implicature | relevance

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

In this paper, it is shown that context can disambiguate potentially ambiguous or underspecified belief attributions and that decision problems can be employed to derive conversational implicatures.