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Schank, Roger C. 1979. Some prerequisites for a computational pragmatics. In Mey, Jacob L., ed. Pragmalinguistics, theory and practice. Mouton. pp. 365–407.
Publication type
Article in book
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English

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In this paper the emphasis is on the conceptual syntax of causation, as opposed to 'verbal syntax'. This is because causal statements are particularly sensitive to 'world knowledge' and 'false' inferences; ('false' means here: an inference that in someway is possible, hence 'correct', but nevertheless should not have been made pragmatically, i.e., in the concrete circumstances of the language user).