Clarifying Utterances
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The paper argues for the importance of utterances (as opposed to \sen-tences in context") as basic units in dialogue. The main case study is clar-iication: a characterization is provided within KOS, a recently developed synthesis of situation semantics and dialogue games, of the clariications that can follow up on an utterance. This involves outlining: (a) a theory of understanding for dialogue, (b) a semantics for clariication acts, and (c) an account of how utterances update contexts. I will show that a rela-tional view of meaning, whose original motivation was purely logical, can provide an important component for a theory of utterance understanding and utterance updates.
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