Thomas Becker
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas Becker is involved.
Articles
2012 The pragmatics of argumentation: Commitment to implicit premises Practical Theories and Empirical Practice: A linguistic perspective, Schalley, Andrea C. (ed.), pp. 257–272 | Article
Argumentation in everyday life is a matter of pragmatics. A speaker who utters an assertion that is meant to be an argument is not only committed to the truth of the assertion itself and its presuppositions but also to the implicit premises that make the assertion a reasonable argument. For… read more
2003 Review of Pounder (2000): Processes and Paradigms in Word-Formation Morphology Diachronica 20:1, pp. 211–218 | Review