Accommodating innovative meaning in dialogue

• Meaning accommodation occurs when a dialogue participant learns new meanings by observing utterances in context and adapting to the way linguistic expressions are used. This paper sketches a formal account of meaning accommodation, focusing on the detection of subjectively innovative uses of an expression. It also provides an example of adaptation of lexical meaning to accommodate innovation.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Filosofi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Philosophy (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Språkteknologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Language Technology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Dialogue

learning

semantics

pragmatics

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)