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Publication details [#4121]
Gumperz, John J. 1977. Sociocultural knowledge in conversational inference. Georgetown Univerity Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1977 : 191–211.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
Sociocultural knowledge is shown to play a crucial role in 'conversational inference', i.e. the situated or context-bound process of interpretation by means of which participants in a conversation assess others' intentions and on which they base their responses.