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Free Choice Permission is Strong Permission
Nicholas Asher,Daniel Bonevac +1 more
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It is observed that free choice inferences are defeasible, and a semantics of free choice permission is defended as strong permission expressed in terms of a modal conditional in a nonmonotonic logic.Abstract:
Free choice permission, a crucial test case concerning the semantics/ pragmatics boundary, usually receives a pragmatic treatment. But its pragmatic features follow from its semantics. We observe that free choice inferences are defeasible, and defend a semantics of free choice permission as strong permission expressed in terms of a modal conditional in a nonmonotonic logic.read more
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Quantity implicatures, exhaustive interpretation, and rational conversation
TL;DR: A procedure for constructing the context of utterance insofar as it is relevant for quantity reasoning as a game between speaker and hearer is offered, and a new solution concept is given that improves on classical equilibrium approaches in that it uniquely selects the desired "empirically correct" play in these interpretation games by a chain of back-and-forth reasoning about players' behavior.
Signal to act : game theory in pragmatics
TL;DR: A general game theoretic model of language use and interpretation is offered and applied to linguistic pragmatics in the vein of Grice (1989) and the ibr model explains pragmatic phenomena as arising from a sequence of iterated best responses.
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Free choice permission as resource-sensitive reasoning.
TL;DR: It is argued that because permission is a limited resource, a resource-sensitive logic such as Girard's Linear Logic is better suited to modeling permission talk than, say, classical logic.
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Dynamic Logic
TL;DR: This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to Dynamic Logic, a system of remarkable unity that is theoretically rich as well as of practical value.
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Logics of conversation
Nicholas Asher,Alex Lascarides +1 more
TL;DR: The semantics of DRT is studied as a model for logical forms for discourse interpretation and some proofs in the glue logic are shown.