SEMDIAL 2016 JerSem Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
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Even casual dialogue contains instances of reasoning. A paradigmatic case is the usage of Why-questions that intuitively elicit a reason for something. We present a thorough analysis of Why-questions in dialogue from a rhetorical perspective. We specify the semantics of Why-questions, i.e., we define what the space of acceptable answers is, how this acceptability is itself up for further negotiation, and discuss some context-sensitive aspects of bare Why?. We formalise our model in a type-theoretical framework.
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