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The Nature of Pragmatic Information (1999)
| Venue: | Grammatical Interfaces in HPSG. CSLI Publications |
| Citations: | 8 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Green99thenature,
author = {Georgia M. Green},
title = {The Nature of Pragmatic Information},
booktitle = {Grammatical Interfaces in HPSG. CSLI Publications},
year = {1999},
pages = {pp.},
publisher = {CSLI Publications}
}
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Abstract
this paper is that the nature of the pragmatic information available from the use of linguistic signs does not parallel the more specifically linguistic information carried by signs. For one thing, even including the indexical information (i.e., indices for speaker, hearer, time and location of the act of uttering something that the sign represents), pragmatic information is not so much information about the sign as it is about the relation between the user of the sign and the act of using the sign. First and foremost, pragmatic information is information about mental models: speaker's and addressee's mental models of each other. for George to understand Martha's utterance of "X" to George, George must not only recognize (speech perception, parsing) that she has said "X," he must have beliefs about Martha which allow him to infer what her purpose was in uttering "X," and that in turn entails that he has beliefs about her model of him, including his model of her, etc.
