Publications
Publication details [#3990]
Grewendorf, Günther. 1981. Answering as decision making: A new way of doing pragmatics. In Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren, eds. Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. John Benjamins. pp. 263–284.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Annotation
G. defends the distinction between semantics and pragmatics with reference to questions and answers. The task of the pragmatics of questions is to define the concept of a pragmatically significant answer, whereas the semantics of questions should define the concept of a true answer as well as the concept of the logical presupposition of a question.