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question under discussion: a standalone construct

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Pragmatics

framework treating discourse as organized around a stack of implicit questions that each utterance addresses, constraining relevance, focus and implicature.

In pragmatics, question under discussion refers to framework treating discourse as organized around a stack of implicit questions that each utterance addresses, constraining relevance, focus and implicature. This meaning comes from Roberts (2012) in Semantics and Pragmatics.[1]

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at-issueness1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct discourse6 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs focus4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Roberts, C. (2012). Information structure in discourse: Towards an integrated formal theory of pragmatics. Semantics and Pragmatics, 5. https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.5.6

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