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This paper investigates dynamic semantics of conversations from the point of view of semantical closedness, presuppositions and shared belief/common knowledge updates, by analysing the meta-expression “what do you mean (by X)?” into three major usages: semantic repair initiation, intentional repair initiation, and inferential repair initiation, since these three usages are deeply related to three types of semantical closedness: closedness of denotations, closedness of intention and closedness of inference of conversations. As a result, the proposed dynamic semantics of conversations is semantically closed in terms of shared beliefs of the conversants.
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Ogata, N. (2000). What Do You Mean by “What Do You Mean”?. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1902. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45323-7_66
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