Conflicts in Interpretation - Petra Hendriks
Rhetorical structure
Conflicts in Interpretation - Petra Hendriks
Petra Hendriks [+]
University of Groningen
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Petra Hendriks is a Professor at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her publications include Breinmakers & Breinbrekers (with Niels Taatgen and Tjeerd Andringa, 1997) and Optimal Communication (with Helen de Hoop and Reinhard Blutner, 2006).
Irene Kramer
Henriette de Swart [+]
University of Utrecht
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Prof. dr. Henriette de Swart is professor of French linguistics and semantics. She is also affiliated to the cognitive artificial intelligence program. Her research focuses on cross-linguistic semantics, especially in the area of nominals, tense and aspect, negation.
Description
This chapter focuses on a strategy of persuasion and argues that in order to persuade their audience, speakers effectively use their implicit linguistic knowledge of how hearers arrive at the optimal interpretation of a speaker’s utterance. The chapter illustrates this use of bidirectional optimization with an alternation in the order in which a when-clause and a main clause are presented and the concomitant interpretations.