Publications
Publication details [#31456]
Aakhus, Mark and Alan Aldrich. 2002. Crafting Communication Activity: Understanding Felicity in "I Wish I . . ." Compliments. Research on Language and Social Interaction 35 (4) : 395–425.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Erlbaum
ISBN
0835-1813
Annotation
This study demonstrates that felicity conditions in interaction are background assumptions used by interactants as pragmatic resources to craft activity, rather than conventional guarantors of a speaker's intentional meaning.