Accommodation: a cognitive heuristic for background information
Presuppositions are usually defined as a linguistic means to convey background information, which require very little cognitive effort to be interpreted (Sperber & Wilson [1986] 1995: 706). As for the accommodation of presupposition, it is defined as a process by which the listener updates – als...
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2018-06-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/1491 |
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