id: 01139824
dt: j
an: 01139824
au: Stalnaker, Robert
ti: On the representation of context.
so: J. Logic Lang. Inf. 7, No.1, 3-19 (1998).
py: 1998
pu: Springer, Dordrecht
la: EN
cc: 
ut: presupposition; anaphora; pragmatics; abstract representation of a
    discourse context; speech act
ci: 
li: doi:10.1023/A:1008254815298
ab: Summary: This paper revisits some foundational questions concerning the
    abstract representation of a discourse context. The context of a
    conversation is represented by a body of information that is presumed
    to be shared by the participants in the conversation ‒ the
    information that the speaker presupposes a point at which a speech act
    is interpreted. This notion is designed to represent both the
    information on which context-dependent speech acts depend, and the
    situation that speech acts are designed to affect, and so to be a
    representation of context that is appropriate for explaining the
    interaction of context and the contents expressed in them. After
    reviewing the motivating ideas and the outlines of the apparatus, the
    paper responds to a criticism of the framework, and considers the way
    it can help to clarify some phenomena concerning pronouns with
    indefinite antecedents.
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