Asking questions [electronic resource] : using meaningful structures to imply ignorance / Robert Fiengo.
Publication details: Oxford : New York : University Press, [2007]Description: xii, 179 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 401/.4 22
- BD221 .F54 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-176) and index.
Ignorance and incompleteness -- The instrumental model of talking : how to talk about talk -- Open questions, confirmation questions, and how to choose -- Which sentence-type to use when asking them -- Quantifiers, wh-expressions, and manners of interpretation -- Syntactic structure -- On the questioning speech-acts and the kinds of ignorance they -- Address.
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