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T1 Towards a Pragmatic Taxonomy of Misunderstandings
A1 Yus Ramos, Francisco
AB The increasing emphasis given to the pragmatic perspective in thestudies of everyday conversation over the last few decades has uncoveredthe reality which lies behind everyday conversation: the fact thatcommunication is subject to risk and effort, and that we understandeach other through continuous fallible hypotheses about our interlocutor’sintended interpretation. In this study, I address misunderstandingsfrom a pragmatic (mainly relevance-theoretic) approach and analysethe reasons why they occur in face-to-face interaction. The main hypothesisunderlying this paper is that all the possible varieties of misunderstandingcan be accounted for in the outcome of the combinationof three preliminary continua: intentional vs. unintentional; verbal vs.nonverbal; and explicit vs. implicit, which yields a taxonomy of twelvepossible cases.
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