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Publication details [#39042]

Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr. 1987. Mutual knowledge and the psychology of conversational inference. Journal of Pragmatics 11 (5) : 561–588.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

inference | mutual knowledge | psychology of language | utterance, comprehension of | utterance, production of

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This article discusses the role that mutual knowledge plays in a psychological theory of conversational inference, arguing that both speakers and listeners must coordinate their mutual knowledge in order to understand utterances.