@article{Schloeder_Venant_Asher_2019, title={Aligning intentions: Acceptance and rejection in dialogue}, volume={21}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/185}, abstractNote={<p>This paper presents an operational and grounded notion of <em>intention in dialogue</em> and links it to the <em>commitments</em> that speakers make in dialogue. We take these two concepts to then develop a conceptually sound way of doing formal pragmatics. Our model tackles a number of relevant phenomena: (i) we formally derive the illocutionary forces of the speech acts of <em>asserting</em> and <em>rejecting</em> a proposition; (ii) we give a suitable semantics to rejections of arbitrary speech acts, including rejections of rejections; (iii) we demonstrate how <em>cooperativity</em> is linked to how strongly the notion of <em>speaker commitment</em> is understood. That is, how tightly bound speakers are by their commitments directly influences how cooperative they are.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Schloeder, Julian J. and Venant, Antoine and Asher, Nicholas}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={1073–1090} }