Semantics of Perspectival Utterances
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Speech and Natural Language. Pages 1474-1478.
Abstract
Perspectival utterances are analyzed within Situation Semantics framework. Perspectival expressions are expressions speakers use when they describe facts from certain standpoints within their environments. Uses of perspectival expressions have two significant characteristics, bi-directional contextual dependency, and perspectivity transfer. Relational conception of meaning and mental states central in situation semantics is shown to be particularly useful in explicating perspectivity phenomena. A model is then presented which ( 1) at tributes perspectivity to agents' mental states, (2) introduces the notion of point of view parameter in mental states, and (3) incorporates a general picture of linguistic communication. The model is shown to capture correctly our intuitions behind the uses of perspectival expressions.
@inproceedings{ijcai1989p235,
title = {Semantics of Perspectival Utterances},
author = {Katagiri, Yasuhiro},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-89}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {N. S. Sridharan},
pages = {1474--1478},
year = {1989},
month = {8},
note = {Speech and Natural Language},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/235},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Semantics of Perspectival Utterances AU - Katagiri, Yasuhiro T2 - Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-89 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1989 SP - 1474 EP - 1478 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/235 ER -Copied
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