47.2 Definition of the Autoclitic Mand

If the establishing operation that controls a mand depends entirely upon or in part upon the speaker’s ongoing verbal behavior in the sense that the listener is being enjoined to react to the primary verbal behavior in a specified way, then we have what may be called an autoclitic mand. Features irrelevant to the classification of autoclitic mands include the response topography, the listener’s current reaction, and the specific type of reinforcement specified by the response.