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Publication details [#10705]

Fillenbaum, Samuel. 1986. The use of conditionals in inducements and deterrents. In Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Alice ter Meulen, Judy Snitzer Reilly and Charles A. Ferguson, eds. On conditionals. Cambridge University Press. pp. 179–195.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conditional utterance | disjunction | promising | threatening

Annotation

On the basis of experimental data, F. discusses threats, bribes, and promises phrased both conditionally and disjunctively, in terms of the interrelations between propositional content, speaker attitude, speech acts, and linguistic structure.