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Publication details [#11958]

Akatsuka, Noriko. 1997. On the Co-Construction of Counterfactual Reasoning. Journal of Pragmatics 28 (6) : 781–794. 14 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

counterfactivity | intention | mental space

Language as a subject

English, American | Japanese | Korean

Person as a subject

Fauconnier, G.

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Observing that speaker intentions in counterfactual reasoning are not accounted for in mental space theory, the notion of co-constructions is proposed and elaborated.