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  <Title>Reference and Pragmatic Identification</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> If referring is to be regarded as an action that requires the hearer to pragmatically identify the referent of a description, then it is important to describe how it is that the speaker and hearer know what pragmatic identification means in a given situation. This paper suggests that the situation dependent meaning of identification follows from general world knowledge, the syntactic and semantic structure of the referring expression itself, and principles of discourse anaphora resolution. This is by no means an exhaustive analysis of the ways in which identification conditions are recognized, but is rather intended to provide the first steps toward the analys{s of reference in a framework that links the results several diverse research programs.</Paragraph>
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