, although seldom in relation with the Web. However, we divert also from the information retrieval tradition by not trying to model syntax or semantics. Instead, we rely on the pragmatical dimension of language. The central characteristic of our approach is that it is lossless. Instead of building elaborate

My aim is to show that it is, at least at some deep level, pointless to approach the semantics of prepositions by their spatial meaning or use, which is commonly identified with its literal or prototypical meaning, as opposed to its secondary or extended metaphorical meaning(s) (see e.g. Lindstromberg 1997). Such an assumption is based on the hypothesis of an a priori

This paper is an exploration in the semantics and pragmatics of linguistic feedback, i.e., linguistic mechanisms which enable the participants in spoken interaction to exchange information about basic communicative functions, such as contact, perception, understanding, and attitudinal reactions

‟, people refer to the pragmatic use of it, which means that Pragmatics is the study of a context-dependent language. People owe their respects to great many linguists and experts in Pragmatics for their various expertises in this field to explain „how the language operates in force of contextually implied

Introduction Pragmatics is commo,nly understood to be concerned with studying the relations between linguistic phenomena and properties of the context of use. The understanding of these relations is important in many areas of theoretical and applied research, from grammatical analysis

applies. The transference of knowledge from the point of application to the point of learning utilises a combination of recognition and inference -- a simple model of the important features is learnt and later situations where inferences can be drawn from the model are recognised. Context

Abstract. The notion of context is indispensable in discussions of meaning, but the word context has often been used in conflicting senses. In logic, the first representation of context as a formal object was by the philosopher C. S. Peirce; but for nearly eighty years, his treatment was unknown

Why do some negative sentences sound strange, even when they are both true and grammatical? We explore the pragmat-ics of negation by examining adults ’ explicit felicity judgments of negative sentences in context. In Experiment 1, we found that a pragmatically supportive context elicited higher

inheritance, which allows default results of lexical generalisations to persist as default beyond the lexicon. We'll show that this persistence can be exploited by the pragmatic component, to reason about when generalisations encoded in the lexicon survive in a discourse context. We'll represent

. van der Sandt 1992), by utilizing semantic underspecification (c £ Reyle 1993). Second, resolving this underspccification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context. This has several consequences. First, since pragmatic information plays a role