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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Note on Punctuation; 1. Introduction: Ignorance and Incompleteness; 2. The Instrumental Model of Talking: How to Talk about Talk; 3. Open Questions, Confirmation Questions, and how to Choose which Sentence-type to Use when Asking them; 4. Quantifiers, Wh-expressions, and Manners of Interpretation; 5. Syntactic Structure; 6. On the Questioning Speech-acts and the Kinds of Ignorance they Address; Bibliography; Index.