Understanding the import of laughter, has interested philosophers and literary scholars for
millennia and, more recently, psychologists, biologists, neuroscientists, and linguists …

In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise
account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts …

The aim of this book is to characterize a notion of type which will cover both linguistic and
non-linguistic action and to lay the foundations for a theory of action based on a theory of …

Laughter is pervasive in human conversation (more than 30k tokens in the dialogue part of
the British National Corpus (BNC)(approx. 1 of every 14 turns (n= 430k).)). Most laughter is …

Interacting with others frequently involves making common-sense inferences linking context,
background knowledge, and beliefs to utterances in the dialogue. As language users we are …

Laughter is a social vocalization universal across cultures and languages. It is ubiquitous in
our dialogues and able to serve a wide range of functions. Laughter has been studied from …

One of the claims of Type Theory with Records is that it can be used to model types learned
by agents in order to classify objects and events in the world, including speech events. That …

In this paper we will go through the version of type theory TTR (Type Theory with Records)
that we have proposed in a number of publications (including, Cooper, Res Lang Comput, 3 …

14 Assertion and Rejection Page 471 14 Assertion and Rejection 14.0 Questions and
Answers (1) Why do you think both linguists and philosophers find assertion and rejection …

Laughter is ubiquitous and crucial in social interactions. In addition to conveying meaning, it
is a valuable means for monitoring interlocutor mental states and mutual cognitive …