| J. Barwise. On the circumstantial relation between meaning and content. Versus, 44:23--39, 1986. Reprinted in [10]. |
....(among others) To quote Leech [38, p. 67] once again The effect of context is to attach a certain probability to each sense (the complete ruling out of a sense being the limiting case of nil probability) Consider the following simple (possibly trivial for human beings) segment of conversation [9]: A (a woman, talking to B) I am a philosopher. B (talking to C and referring to A) She is a philosopher. C (talking to A) So, you are a philosopher. Context eliminates certain ambiguities or multiple meanings in the message. In the above segment, one of the very first context dependent ....
J. Barwise. On the circumstantial relation between meaning and content. In The Situation in Logic, number 17 in CSLI Lecture Notes, pages 59--77. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, CA, 1987.
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J. Barwise. On the circumstantial relation between meaning and content. Versus, 44:23--39, 1986. Reprinted in [10].
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