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Publication details [#10451]
Abraham, Werner. 1989. Intentions and the meaning of utterances: Aspects of a sorting and hierarchizing of communicative actions. In Weigand, Edda and Franz Hundsnurscher, eds. Dialoganalyse II: Referate der 2. Arbeitstagung Bochum 1988. Max Niemeyer. pp. 49–69. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
The author argues that a logic of discourse can be developed by invoking the structural primitive categories of event, utterance and its theme-rheme structure, and a minimal number of characteristics to describe the intention and rhetorical strategies of both speaker and addressee.