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Ragnar Rommetveit has convincingly demonstrated how important the tacit presuppositions of speaker and listener are even in the most ordinary exchange of information, and he has directed our attention to various aspects of the explicit or implicit metacontracts that have to be established with respect to the overlap of these presuppositions in order to ensure the success of message transmissions.
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Schönbach, P. (1976). Critique. In: Strickland, L.H., Aboud, F.E., Gergen, K.J. (eds) Social Psychology in Transition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8765-1_18
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