3. Contextual exploitation of interpretation clues in text understanding

Dascal, Marcelo; Weizman, Elda

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“…Recognition can be aided through contextual cues and clues. Cues may lead a hearer to detect an interpretation problem (e.g., a mismatch between the literal and the nonliteral level of meaning) and clues can serve to fill the gaps left in the text (Dascal and Weizman 1987; see also Sbisà in this volume). But now it is clear that the pragmatic enterprise is not like bottle throwing in the hope that the message in the bottle will be recovered by someone; the message must be shaped by taking into account the concrete situation of the utterance and the predispositions of the hearers to pick up the cues and clues that direct the communication process.…”

Section: This Volume) In Essentials Douven Develops An Epistemic Hygmentioning

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Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy

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Piparo²,

Carapezza³

2013

Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy &Amp; Psychology

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Section: This Volume) In Essentials Douven Develops An Epistemic Hygmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy

Capone¹,

Piparo²,

Carapezza³

2013

Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy &Amp; Psychology

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“…Dascal (1983: 26-27) points out that an indexical, for example, is a kind of place-holder or free variable that codifies the type of contextual information that has to be obtained in order to complete the utterance meaning in order to yield a proposition; in generating an implicature, on the other hand, no codified indication of this type is available in the sentence uttered and it is some kind of conflict between the sentence uttered and the context of utterance that drives the inferential process. Dascal and Weizman (1987) call the first type of access to context 'gap-filling' , and the second, 'mismatch resolution' .…”

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The referential-attributive distinction

Powell

2001

P&C

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In this paper my aim is to approach the referential-attributive distinction in the interpretation of definite descriptions, originally discussed by Donnellan (1966), from a cognitive perspective grounded in Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson 1986/95). In particular, I argue that definite descriptions encode a procedural semantics, in the sense of Blakemore (1987), which is neutral as between referential and attributive readings (among others). On this account, the distinction between referential and attributive readings arises as a result of the differing links that exist between different types of mental representation and the world, rather than as a result of the differing links between language and mental representations.

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“…Dascal, 1977). become a guide (a "clue" in Dascal and Weizman's (1987) terms) which helps her/him to find out what the misunderstanding consisted of, i.e. the alternative interpretation that is the reason for the production of the irrelevant terms.…”

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The interactional handling of misunderstanding in everyday conversations

Bazzanella

Damiano

1999

Journal of Pragmatics

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In this paper, we will deal with the handling -within the conversational interaction -of linguistic misunderstanding, on the basis of an Italian corpus. The following aspects of this process will be analyzed: the author of the repair, the phases of negotiation (i.e. "the negotiation cycle of misunderstanding"), the collocation of the repair (third and fourth turn repairs are the most common patterns), linguistic and non-linguistic misunderstanding.A general distinction will be drawn between coming to understanding, understanding and misunderstanding on the one hand, and non-understanding on the other. In conclusion, misunderstanding, as a 'form of understanding' internal to the process of comprehension, which has to be monitored and negotiated interactionally, should not be seen as a polar process (absence/presence of comprehension) but, rather, as a continuum.

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3. Contextual exploitation of interpretation clues in text understanding

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