Information And Deliberation In Discourse
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Tile most common assumption about intention in discourse is that the primary intention of discourse is to eomlnunicate and receive information. This is a founding assumption of every formal model of discourse meaning that I am aware of. The standard account of meaning is that utterances are functions from contexts to contexts whose pr imary purpose is to describe the world, and whose meaning derives from the fact that they delimit the set of worlds that the conversants believe possible. One of the ramifications of this assumption is that utterances with no new information are infelicitous or have no meaning[i , 2, 14, 5]. However, consider example 1, asserted by a passenger in a vehicle in response to tile driver's comment that the heavy traffic was unexpected:
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