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In Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory (RT), the relevance of a given utterance in discourse is treated as given, while the context which the relevance of the utterance depends on is treated as a variable to be actively sought and selected by the hearer. This paper explores how the speaker’s choice of intonation — in this case Norwegian intonation — can facilitate the hearer’s inferential derivation of the contextual premisses needed to obtain the intended contextual effects.
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Fretheim, T., van Dommelen, W.A. (1999). Building Context with Intonation. In: Bouquet, P., Benerecetti, M., Serafini, L., Brézillon, P., Castellani, F. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1688. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48315-2_39
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