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Delin, Judy – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Presents a view of the relative roles of logical presupposition and shared knowledge in "it"-cleft constructions. Indicators of shared knowledge relate to a speaker's "assumptions" about the state of the hearer's knowledge, whereas presuppositions indicate a speaker's "requirements" for what should be included within…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Communication (Thought Transfer), Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis