Inquisitive Semantics and Pragmatics

Inquisitive Semantics and Pragmatics. Groenendijk, J. & Roelofsen, F. In Workshop on Language, Communication and Rational Agency, 2009. An earlier version appeared in J.M. Larrazabal and L. Zubeldia, editors, Meaning, Content and Argument, Proceedings of the ILCLI International Workshop on Semantics, Pragmatics and Rhetoric, pages 41-72, University of the Basque Country Publication Service, 2009 (https://projects.illc.uva.nl/inquisitivesemantics/assets/files/papers/GroenendijkRoelofsen2009_SPR.pdf). Dustin Tucker provided interesting comments (https://www.dropbox.com/s/wq1yip0tbrlr8ly/dustin-tuckers-comments.pdf?dl=0) on this paper, and a response to these comments is also available (https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0cgccgy1nszihk/Comments%20Dustin%20October%202010.pdf?dl=0).

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This paper starts with an informal introduction to inquisitive semantics. After that, we present a formal definition of the semantics, introduce the semantic notions of inquisitiveness and informativeness, and define the semantic categories of questions, assertions, and hybrid sentences. The focus of the paper will be on the logical pragmatical notions that the semantics gives rise to. We introduce and motivate inquisitive versions of principles of cooperation, which direct a conversation towards enhancement of the common ground. We define a notion of compliance, which judges relatedness of one utterance to another, and a notion of homogeneity, which enables quantitative comparison of compliant moves. We end the paper with an illustration of the cooperative way in which implicatures are established, or cancelled, in inquisitive pragmatics.

@inproceedings{GroenendijkRoelofsen:09michigan,
	abstract = {This paper starts with an informal introduction to inquisitive semantics. After that, we present a formal definition of the semantics, introduce the semantic notions of inquisitiveness and informativeness, and define the semantic categories of questions, assertions, and hybrid
sentences.

The focus of the paper will be on the logical pragmatical notions that the semantics gives rise to. We introduce and motivate inquisitive versions of principles of cooperation, which direct a conversation towards enhancement of the common ground. We define a notion of compliance, which judges relatedness of one utterance to another, and a notion of homogeneity, which enables quantitative comparison of compliant moves. We end the paper with an illustration of the cooperative way in which implicatures are established, or cancelled, in inquisitive pragmatics.},
	author = {Groenendijk, Jeroen and Roelofsen, Floris},
	booktitle = {Workshop on Language, Communication and Rational Agency},
	date-modified = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
	keywords = {inquisitive semantics,theoretical linguistics,questions,inquisitive pragmatics,disjunction},
	note = {An earlier version appeared in J.M. Larrazabal and L. Zubeldia, editors, Meaning, Content and Argument, Proceedings of the ILCLI International Workshop on Semantics, Pragmatics and Rhetoric, pages 41-72, University of the Basque Country Publication Service, 2009 (https://projects.illc.uva.nl/inquisitivesemantics/assets/files/papers/GroenendijkRoelofsen2009_SPR.pdf). Dustin Tucker provided interesting comments (https://www.dropbox.com/s/wq1yip0tbrlr8ly/dustin-tuckers-comments.pdf?dl=0) on this paper, and a response to these comments is also available (https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0cgccgy1nszihk/Comments%20Dustin%20October%202010.pdf?dl=0).},
	title = {{Inquisitive Semantics and Pragmatics}},
	url = {https://projects.illc.uva.nl/inquisitivesemantics/assets/files/papers/GroenendijkRoelofsen2009_ISP-Stanford.pdf},
	year = {2009},
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {https://projects.illc.uva.nl/inquisitivesemantics/assets/files/papers/GroenendijkRoelofsen2009_ISP-Stanford.pdf}}

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