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Take the Sequence:

1. What time is it?
2. It's two thirty.
3. Good.

Contents 1 show how the "meaning" of the first utterance is changed by the third 2 is the first utterance a question? why (not)? 3 illustrate how the two common meanings of "accountability" might help us understand what it happening here: who is accountable to what? what is the account that the speakers are giving of each other? 4 who controls such a sequence?

show how the "meaning" of the first utterance is changed by the third

is the first utterance a question? why (not)?

illustrate how the two common meanings of "accountability" might help us understand what it happening here: who is accountable to what? what is the account that the speakers are giving of each other?

who controls such a sequence?

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