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<blockquote>„Whereas Brugeman had wandted to study the linguistic means of linguistic action, there was a movement, which made itself increasingly felt after Wegener, to include in the analysis not only linguistic instruments of linguistic action, but also extra-linguistic, contextual ones, in short to leave the sentence as a linguistic unit behind and to look at it from a purely communicational point of view. One of the most important contributors to this widening of linguistics was Theodor Kalepky (1862-1932) who published his ''Neuaufbau der Grammatik als Grundlegung zu einem wissenschaftlichen System der Sprachbetrachtung'' in 1928. Kalepky, who never mentioned Wegener, wrote that the ''A sentence is the smallest self-sufficient unit of communication offered by the speaker, or expressed even more briefly: ''A sentence is the smallest communicational whole'' ''(Kalepky 1928:8).

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Nodding in reply to a question is therefore a sentence for Kalepky. Like Wegener before him and Gardiner after him (who mentions Kalepky as one of the pioneers of linguistic theory), he did not want to dissociate extralinguistic factors, such as situation, gestures, inarticulate sounds, intonation, from linguistic ones, such as word order etc. These are all instruments of language (Kalepky 1928:4-5) (Nerlich / Clarke, 1996, 185-186).

BBF, Archivdatenbank; Kössler, Personenlexikon; Knud Togeby, „Theodor Kalepky et les oppositions participatives“, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics 9, 1965, 71-76; Brigitte Nerlich / David D. Clarke, Language, Action, and context: the early history of pragmatics in Europe and America 1780-1930, Amsterdam-Philadelphia 1996, 492, bes. 185f.; Martin Hummel, Der Grundwert des spanischen Subjunktivs, Tübingen 2001, 303.