What is it about?
This paper bridges the boundaries of formal pragmatics and interactional studies to develop a formal model of ‘interactional achievement’, the local processes of conversational inferencing that speakers engage in to negotiate and co-construct meanings.
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Why is it important?
We develop a formalisation of the process of 'interactional achievement' that highlights how speaker meanings are not only due to the conventions of language and the speaker's communicative intentions, but can be subject to complex inferential work between individuals.
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We wrote this article to draw attention to the ways in which the negotiation of meaning follows observable patterns of interaction, and is therefore amenable to formalisation. This article is thus a first step in developing a model of communication that considers not only straight forward understandings between people, but that can also deal with misunderstandings and how they are resolved in interaction.
Dr Chi-He Elder
University of East Anglia
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This page is a summary of: The interactional achievement of speaker meaning: Toward a formal account of conversational inference, Intercultural Pragmatics, November 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/ip-2018-0021.
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