Publications

Publication details [#4186]

Habel, Christopher U. and Claus-Rainer Rollinger. 1980. Konversationsmaximen für die Frage-Beantwortung. In Tschauder, Gerhard and Edda Weigand, eds. Perspektive: Textextern. Akten des 14. Linguistischen Kolloquiums Bochum 1979, Band 2. M. Niemeyer. pp. 85–96.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

German

Keywords

conversational maxim | informativeness | question-answer sequence

Annotation

Gives a formal treatment of the following question: When is the answer to a question as informative as is required for the current purpose of the exchange?