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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Formal Pragmatics"”.
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Implicit Programming and Formal Pragmatics
… paradigm called implicit programming to formally separate the notion of correctness (a semantic issue) from that of performance and resource usage during program execution (a pragmatic one). We shall show that this approach is sufficiently general to encompass approximate computing and …
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This machine kills fascists : detecting propaganda with formal models of mass discourse structure (and other ideas)
… in the philosophy of language in general and in pragmatics in particular. Chapter 1 augments an existing model of discourse-level information structure in order to articulate relevance conditions that make the right predictions about the class of utterances I call higher order utterances. The …
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Joint inference in pragmatic reasoning
… game theory and Bayesian cognitive science to formalize Gricean pragmatic reasoning [29, 28, 36, 51]. In the first part of this work, we discuss several phenomena which pose a challenge to these accounts of pragmatics: M-implicatures [45] and embedded implicatures which violate Hurford's …