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Publication details [#25669]

Klinge, Alex. 1995. On the linguistic interpretation of contractual modalities. Journal of Pragmatics 23 (6) : 649–675.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextual adjustability | contract2 | modal verb | modality | sentence type

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

K. provides some basic semantic and pragmatic principles to adequately interpret utterances of modalized sentences in contracts, in casu household policies, by outlining the semantics of sentence types, the modal auxiliaries and the pragmatics of contextual parameters.