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Definite reference and mutual knowledge

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The article was published on 1981-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1109 citations till now.

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Cognitive Status and the Form of Referring Expressions in Discourse

TL;DR: In this paper, the As propose six implicationally related cognitive statuses relevant for explicating the use of referring expressions in natural language discourse, which are the conventional meanings signalled by determiners and pronouns, and interaction of the statuses with Grice's maxim of Quantity accounts for the actual distribution and interpretation of forms when necessary conditions for the use more than one form are met.