Publications

Publication details [#1314]

Berkel, Arrie Van. 1978. Begrijpelijkheid, aanvaardbaarheid en pragmatische presupposities. In Anonymus, ed. Taalbeheersing 1978: Verslagen van een symposium gehouden op 13 april 1978 aan de Katholieke Hogeschool te Tilburg. Vereniging Interuniversitair Overleg. pp. 28–41.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

Dutch

Keywords

acceptability | intelligibility | mutual knowledge | pragmatic presupposition | presupposition failure

Person as a subject

Harder, P. | Kock, C.

Annotation

The model of Harder and Kock (1976: 'The theory of presupposition failure') is used to show that if an utterance is not understood or accepted, this can often be described in terms of non-congruent pragmatic presuppositions in the speaker and the hearer.