Common ground (linguistics)
Insemantics,pragmatics,andphilosophy of language,thecommon groundof a conversation is the set ofpropositionsthat theinterlocutorshave agreed to treat as true. For a proposition to be in the common ground, it must becommon knowledgein the conversational context. The set ofpossible worldscompatible with the common ground is often called thecontext set.[1][2][3][4]
The concept is fundamental to many theories of discourse. In such theories, thespeech actofassertionis often analyzed as a proposal to add an additional proposition to the common ground. Similarly,presuppositionsare taken to be licensed when they are already established in the common ground. While such approaches are typically construed aspragmatic,the framework ofdynamic semanticstreats the semanticdenotationsof sentences as functions which update the common ground.[1][2][3][4]In many theories, the common ground is one of several elements of theconversational scoreboard.[5]
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[edit]- ^abGreen, Mitchell (2020)."Speech Acts".In Zalta, Edward (ed.).Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Retrieved2021-03-05.
- ^abPagin, Peter (2016)."Assertion".In Zalta, Edward (ed.).Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Retrieved2021-03-05.
- ^abNouwen, Rick; Brasoveanu, Adrian; van Eijck, Jan; Visser, Albert (2016)."Dynamic Semantics".In Zalta, Edward (ed.).The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Retrieved2020-08-11.
- ^abStalnaker, Robert(1978). "Assertion". In Cole, P (ed.).Syntax and Semantics, Vol. IX: Pragmatics.Academic Press.
- ^Jeong, Sunwoo (2018)."Intonation and sentence type conventions: Two types of rising declaratives".Journal of Semantics.35(2): 305–356.doi:10.1093/semant/ffy001.
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