Abstract
In Paul Laurendeau's paper, commitment to the content of a speech act (pnse en charge) involves a complex cluster of linguistic operations to do with what has previously been stated, what is presently stated, and what is preserved or altered as a 'text' unfolds. The possibility of taking a statement into account without committing to it, that of taking into account a statement ascribed to somebody else, and that of claiming initial authorship of a statement are concomitantly present in that picture. The author examines how commitment and non-commitment can combine with the further expansion, the introduction and the restriction and/or annulment of an assertion.
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