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16.1 What is Accommodation? 16.1 What is Accommodation?
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16.1.1 A Simple Example 16.1.1 A Simple Example
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16.1.2 Semantic Presupposition and Pragmatic Presupposition 16.1.2 Semantic Presupposition and Pragmatic Presupposition
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16.1.3 Accommodation and Implicature 16.1.3 Accommodation and Implicature
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16.2 Where Do We Accommodate? 16.2 Where Do We Accommodate?
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16.2.1 Multiple Contexts 16.2.1 Multiple Contexts
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16.2.2 A Global Preference 16.2.2 A Global Preference
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16.2.3 Trapping 16.2.3 Trapping
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16.2.4 Conversational Principles 16.2.4 Conversational Principles
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16.2.5 Multiple Accommodation 16.2.5 Multiple Accommodation
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16.2.6 Information Structure as a Constraint on Accommodation 16.2.6 Information Structure as a Constraint on Accommodation
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16.3 A Puzzle: Missing Accommodation 16.3 A Puzzle: Missing Accommodation
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16.3.1 Triggers That Do Not Accommodate 16.3.1 Triggers That Do Not Accommodate
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16.3.2 Explanations of Missing Accommodation 16.3.2 Explanations of Missing Accommodation
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16.4 Conclusion 16.4 Conclusion
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Further Reading Further Reading
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References References
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16 Accommodation
Get accessDavid Beaver (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 1995) is a Professor in Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, and director of UT’s Cognitive Science Program. In addition to over sixty articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics in semantics, pragmatics, and beyond, he is author of the books Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics (CLSI Publications, 1995), Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning (Blackwell, 2008, with Brady Z. Clark), and Hustle: The Politics of Language (forthcoming, Princeton University Press, with Jason Stanley). He is joint founding editor of the journal Semantics and Pragmatics.
Henk Zeevat (Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, 1991) is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on, among other topics, computational semantics, Discourse Representation Theory, anaphora, presupposition, demonstratives, Optimality Theory, and historical meaning change.
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
This article explores the complex and intricate problem of accommodation, which sits right at the linguistic interface between semantics and pragmatics. Accommodation is an inferential process that is subject to pragmatic constraints. A discussion of the different contexts in which accommodation can take place and the pragmatic principles that select between those contexts is presented. The article also addresses a puzzle on missing accommodation. It then outlines the data and some lines of explanation for Lewisian accommodation. The article finally draws some general conclusions about progress that has been made in understanding accommodation, its significance for the study of presupposition and other phenomena, and considers what remains to be done. The theory of accommodation has become far more nuanced than Lewis's original conception.
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