’Sorry’ is the hardest word
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چکیده
We are interested in the ways that language is used to achieve a variety of goals, where the same utterance may have vastly different consequences in different situations. This is closely related to the topic of creativity in language. The fact that the same utterance can be used to achieve a variety of goals opens up the possibility of using it to achieve new goals. The current paper concentrates largely on an implemented system for exploring how the effects of an utterance depend on the situation in which it is produced, but we will end with some speculations about how how utterances can come to have new kinds of uses.
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