On Relevance Conditions for Asserting Disjunctions
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Communication is a goal–directed activity. In general, it can serve multiple purposes, e.g. information transfer, expression of emotions, making promises,... According to H.P. Grice (1989), if communication is to be successful, the specific purpose of the communicative act has to be known and accepted by all participants. Hence, for a participant to be cooperative (i.e. willing to make the communication successful), she should tailor her contributions to the specific purpose of the communicative act she is involved in (the cooperative principle).
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