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Affective Demonstratives and the Division of Pragmatic Labor

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Logic, Language and Meaning

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Building on [1] and [2], [3] argues for a ‘division of pragmatic labor’: as a result of general pragmatic interactions, unmarked expressions are generally used to convey unmarked messages and marked expressions are generally used to convey marked messages (see also [4,5]). [6] explicitly splits this into two separate pressures (“What is expressed simply is stereotypically identified” and “What’s said in an abnormal way isn’t normal”), and [7], [8], [9], and [10] seek to characterize the opposition in terms how form-meaning pairs are optimally chosen.

Our thanks to David Clausen, Noah Constant, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Sven Lauer, Florian Schwarz, and Jess Spencer for discussion.

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Davis, C., Potts, C. (2010). Affective Demonstratives and the Division of Pragmatic Labor. In: Aloni, M., Bastiaanse, H., de Jager, T., Schulz, K. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_5

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