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Allwood, Jens S. and Erland Hjelmquist, eds. 1985. Foregrounding background. Doxa. 248 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
background information

Articles in this volume

Fauconnier, Gilles. Flowing of background information. 13–23
Larsen, S.F. Specific background knowledge and knowledge updating. 25–36
Good, David A. and Trevor Harley. Labels, levels and indirect requests. 37–49
Wilson, Deirdre and Dan Sperber. On choosing the context for utterance-interpretation. 51–64
Verschueren, Jef. The social psychology of background assumptions. 65–73
Hilton, Dennis. Causal beliefs: From attribution theory to cognitive science. 75–86
Jorion, P. and G. Delbos. Truth as shared bad faith. 87–97
Auwera, Johan van der. Background knowledge in logic: Pseudo-monadic operators and presuppositions. 99–106
Gärdenfors, P. The dynamics of belief, conditional sentences, and explanations. 107–116
Travis, Charles. On what is strictly speaking true. 117–160
Trosborg, Anna. The importance of background knowledge for mastery of certain aspects of linguistic/pragmatic competence in preschool children. 161–183
Stedmon, J.A. and N.H. Freeman. When reference fails: Analysis of the use and misuse of quantified expressions to make identifying reference. 185–207
Kail, Michèle and M. Léveillé. A developmental study of recall and comprehension of presupposition. 209–221
Sanford, Anthony J. and Simon C. Garrod. The role of background knowledge in psychological accounts of text comprehension. 223–234
Rumiati, R., R. Job and S. Roncato. The role of background knowledge in the comprehension of sentences describing causal relations. 235–248