Lascarides, A. and N. Asher [2009] The Interpretation of Questions in Dialogue, in A. Riester and T. Solstad (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, volume 5, SinSpeC. Working Papers of the SFB 732, Univserity of Stuttgart, pp17--30.
We propose a dynamic semantics of questions in dialogue that tracks the public commitments of each dialogue agent, including commitments to issues raised by questions.
@inproceedings{lascarides:asher:2009,
author = {Alex Lascarides and Nicholas Asher},
title = {The Interpretation of Questions in Dialogue},
booktitle = {Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13},
year = {2009},
editor = {Riester, Arndt and Solstad, Torgrim},
volume = {5},
series = {SinSpeC. Working Papers of the SFB 732},
organization = {University of Stuttgart},
pages = {17--30}
}