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The Pragmatics of Commitment

The Pragmatics of Commitment

Béguelin, Marie-José
Berrendonner, Alain
Maillat, Didier

Paperback

Series: Sciences Pour La Communication, Book 132

GermanGeneral ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 3034346727
ISBN13: 9783034346726
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Published: Mar 31 2023
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Commitment is connected to central linguistic features, such as modality and evidentiality. It has thus been investigated in many branches of the field. Building upon this heterogeneous literature, this book offers a cognitive pragmatic account of the processes involved in utterance interpretation, crucially when the hearer assesses the level of commitment linked to it. This research illustrates that the relevance-theoretic notion of strength can be used to capture the cognitive effects of commitment markers (as I think that X, I am sure that X, etc.). The author's model is based on a novel typology as well as predictions which were experimentally tested. The results show that commitment to an utterance is indeed cognitively determined by the strength of the hearer's corresponding assumptions.

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