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  <Title>Pragmatic Discourse Representation Theory</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Developments in dynamic semantics, resulting in DRT, have led to a framework suitable for the representation of linguistic phenomena (van Eijck and Kamp 1997). This is specifically due to the fact that, recognizing the importance of context, DRT concentrates on updating the context with the processing of each utterance. In addition, DRT can also be viewed as an agent's mental model of the world and not just a representation of the discourse. It is for these reasons that DRT holds great potential for incorporating more pragmatic phenomena.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> However, despite the suitability of DRT for representing linguistic phenomena, some pragmatic limitations have been noted in the literature. Simons (2003) remarks that DRT is a theory of semantics and not pragmatics. Werth remarks that 'there is no place in [DRT] for participant roles, setting, background knowledge, purposes, even inferences' (Werth 1999: 65). In general terms, we can say that the pragmatic dimension supplements semantic content by using context and cognitive states of agents in dialogue. The discipline of pragmatics is, therefore, concerned with the process by which agents infer information about elements of another agents' cognitive state such as their beliefs and intentions.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Thus, this paper focuses on extending standard DRT pragmatically to model agents' cognitive states in the pragmatic context of dialogue.</Paragraph>
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