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Publication details [#4044]

Groenendijk, Jeroen and Martin Stokhof. 1975. Modality and conversational information. Theoretical Linguistics 2 (1-2) : 61–112.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
acceptability | conversation | implicit information | modality | possible world | truthfulness
Language as a subject
English
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/THLI/html

Annotation

It is argued that for the analysis of the meaning of modal expressions in English, besides the notion of possible world the pragmatic notion of conversational information has to be introduced, and besides truth functions also correctness conditions have to be formulated.

Reviewed by

Newman, John. 1976. Remarks on 'modality and conversational information'.