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Let us first make a pragmatic point. Any utterance, no matter how well constructed from a grammarian’s, a logician’s or even a semanticis’a point of view is meaningless for a hearer, unless he can somehow relate it to his own expectations, unless he somehow knows what the piece of information given to him is for.
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Janta-Polczynski, M. (1982). The “Range” of a Question as a Perceived Intention of the Scope of Information Needed. In: Lowenthal, F., Vandamme, F., Cordier, J. (eds) Language and Language Acquisition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9099-2_28
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