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Werth, Paul. 1993. Accomodation and the myth of presupposition: The view from discourse. Lingua 89 (1) : 39–95.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0024-3841

Annotation

It is argued that sentence-grammarians fail to see that accomodation, as non-assertive introduction of new information, functionally completely differs from a mere kind of presupposition. This article considers accomodation as a process that relativizes the propositional discourse content to its deictic, epistemic and social setting.