Publications

Publication details [#6611]

May, John D. 1981. Practical reasoning: Extracting useful information from partial informants. Journal of Pragmatics 5 (1) : 45–59.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cooperation | inference | practical reasoning | television ad

Journal WWW

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Annotation

The author investigates the role inferences play in certain everyday communication situations, with special attention to non-cooperative speech as in TV advertisements.