Why?
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| Publication date | 2016 |
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| Book title | SEMDIAL 2016 : JerSem |
| Book subtitle | Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue : New Brunswick, NJ, 16-18 July 2016 |
| Series | Proceedings SemDial |
| Event | 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue |
| Pages (from-to) | 5-14 |
| Publisher | New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University |
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| Abstract | Even casual dialogue contains instances of reasoning. A paradigmatic case is the usage of Why-questions that intuitively elicit a reason for something. We present a thorough analysis of Why-questions in dialogue from a rhetorical perspective. We specify the semantics of Why-questions, i.e., we define what the space of acceptable answers is, how this acceptability is itself up for further negotiation, and discuss some context-sensitive aspects of bare Why?. We formalise our model in a type-theoretical framework. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/r.fernandezrovira/papers/2016/why-semdial2016.pdf http://events.illc.uva.nl/semdial/proceedings/semdial2016_jersem_proceedings.pdf |
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