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Asking Questions : Using Meaningful Structures to Imply Ignorance.
Asking Questions examines a central phenomenon of language - the use of sentences to ask questions. Although there is a sizable literature on the syntax and semantics of interrogatives, the logic of "questions", and the speech act of questioning, no one has tried to put the syntax and sema...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, UK,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Asking Questions examines a central phenomenon of language - the use of sentences to ask questions. Although there is a sizable literature on the syntax and semantics of interrogatives, the logic of "questions", and the speech act of questioning, no one has tried to put the syntax and semantics together with the speech acts over the full range of phenomena we pretheoretically think of as asking questions. Robert Fiengo not only does this, but also takes up some. more foundational issues in the theory of language. Asking Questions advances our understanding of a wide range of issues i. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (194 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191526015 0191526010 1281160539 9781281160539 |