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presupposition accommodation: a standalone construct

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Pragmatics

process by which listeners adjust the conversational common ground to include a presupposition the speaker took for granted, so the utterance remains acceptable.

In pragmatics, presupposition accommodation refers to process by which listeners adjust the conversational common ground to include a presupposition the speaker took for granted, so the utterance remains acceptable. This meaning comes from Lewis (1979) in Journal of Philosophical Logic.[1]

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scorekeeping in a language game1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct accommodation4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs ground4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Lewis, D. (1979). Scorekeeping in a language game. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00258436

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