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Verdaasdonk, Hugo. 1976. Concepts of acceptance and the basis of a theory of texts. In Dijk, Teun A. Van, ed. Pragmatics of language and literature. North-Holland. pp. 179–227.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject

Annotation

V. proposes a pragmatically based analysis of the notion 'text', in which the concept of acceptance (introduced in R.M. Martin (1959: 'Toward a systematic pragmatics')) would be central since the most basic operation a reader can be said to perform, is that of accepting (or rejecting) sentences in a text.