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  <Title>CONVERSATIONALLY RELEVANT DESCRIPTIONS</Title>
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CONVERSATIONALLY RELEVANT DESCRIPTIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Conversationally relevant descriptions are definite descriptions that are not merely tools for the identification of a referent, but are also crucial to the discourse in other respects. I analyze the uses of such descriptions in assertions as conveying a particular ~ype of conversational implicatures. Such implicstures can be represented within the framework of possible world semantics. The analysis is extended to non-assertive illocutionary acts on the one hand, and to indefinite descriptions on the other.</Paragraph>
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