Sentence examples for conversational contexts from inspiring English sources

The first line of thought comes from reflection on examples concerning the requirements that have to be met in order to understand demonstrative expressions in conversational contexts where one of the participants in the conversation uses expressions such as 'that woman', but where various women are present, all of whom are possible referents for this demonstrative.

However, a closer look at their use in larger stretches of discourse and in conversational contexts reveals several functions other than restricting the scope of the proposition.

Austin's Oxford colleague H.P. Grice (1913 88) developed a sophisticated theory of how nonliteral aspects of meaning are generated and recovered through the exploitation of general principles of rational cooperation as adapted to conversational contexts.

Different conversational contexts make different respects salient.

What is capricious about selection is that different speakers, in different conversational contexts, will disagree about what is a cause and what is a background condition.

A consequence of contextualism is that sentences containing 'knows' may express distinct propositions, depending on the conversational contexts in which they're uttered.

Parents were asked to rate whether statements about their child were "certainly true," "somewhat true," or "not true," which were coded as 0, 1, and 2. The following subscales were summed to generate a pragmatic language abilities score: inappropriate initiation, coherence, stereotyped conversation, conversational context, and conversational rapport.

These approaches operate at multiple levels: (a) sentiment incongruity (based on sentiment mixtures), (b) semantic incongruity (based on word embedding distance), (c) language model incongruity (based on unexpected language model), (d) author's historical context (based on past text by the author), and (e) conversational context (based on cues from the conversation).

The generative semanticists, influenced by ordinary language philosophy, argued that sentences could not be understood outside a specific conversational context.

And in a closely related point, contextualism doesn't imply that any knowledge appears or vanishes as conversational context changes.

Our results suggest that these scalar implicatures are dependent on the conversational context and that they show none of the autonomy predicted by the Default view.