Sprechaktbedingungen und bedingte Sprechakte:
Pragmatische Konditionalsätze im Deutschen
Karin Pittner
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
This paper deals with conditional sentences which are not related
to the propositional content of the sentence but rather to various aspects
of the utterance that is performed. The main goal is to develop a typology
of the functions of these conditionals. It is shown that in German there
are no uniform rules for the positioning of these conditional sentences,
but the possible positions vary according to the function of the conditionals.
The main types of these sentences are (1) relevance conditionals, (2) conditionals
modifying the illocutionary force, (3) conditionals characterizing the
attitude of the speaker, (4) conditionals commenting on the formulation,
(5) conditionals which indicate discourse-coherence and direct the attention
of the hearer.