Emotive equilibria

Natural language contains many expressions with underspecified emotive content. This paper proposes a way to resolve such underspecification. Nonmonotonic inference over a knowledge base is used to derive an expected interpretation for emotive expressions in a particular context. This 'normal&#...

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Published in:Linguistics and philosophy 2012-05, Vol.35 (3), p.243-283
Main Author: McCready, Eric
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjectives
Emotional states
Emotions
Expectations
Game theory
Inference
Intuition
Languages
Linguistics
Natural language
Nonmonotonic logic
Perceptions
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of language. Logic
Political attitudes
Predicates
Reasoning
Research Article
Semantics
Theoretical linguistics
Tyson, Mike
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Summary:Natural language contains many expressions with underspecified emotive content. This paper proposes a way to resolve such underspecification. Nonmonotonic inference over a knowledge base is used to derive an expected interpretation for emotive expressions in a particular context. This 'normal' meaning is then taken to influence the hearer's expectations about probable interpretations, and, because of these probable interpretations, the decisions of the speaker about when use of underspecified emotive terms is appropriate.
ISSN:0165-0157
1573-0549
DOI:10.1007/s10988-012-9118-9