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Walton, Douglas N. 1993. The speech act of presumption. Pragmatics & Cognition 1 (1) : 125–148.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | dialogue | presupposition | reasoning | speech act

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-0907

Journal DOI

10.1075/pc

Annotation

This paper advances presumption as a distinctive kind of reasoning with a pragmatic function in argumentation and specific dialogical features like a kind of speech act.