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Publication details [#3012]

Ehlich, Konrad and Jochen Rehbein. 1972. Erwarten. In Wunderlich, Dieter, ed. Linguistische Pragmatik. Athenäum Verlag. pp. 99–115.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

German

Keywords

expectation | presupposition | speech act

Annotation

A discussion of the constitutive role of expectations in speech acts. Expectations are said to be action presuppositions: in isolation from the actions for which they are presuppositions, they are pointless.