From predictions to promises: How to derive deonyic commitment

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 471-491

  Kissine, Mikhail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Commitment; Cooperative behaviour; Futurity; Promise; Speech acts

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047685390     PISSN: 09290907     EISSN: 15699943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/pc.16.3.03kis     Document Type: Article

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