Asking questions :
Fiengo, Robert, 1949-
Asking questions : using meaningful structures to imply ignorance / Robert Fiengo. - Oxford ; New York : University Press, [2007] - xii, 179 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780199208418 (alk. paper)
2007007678
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Knowledge, Theory of--Methodology.
Questioning.
Rhetoric.
BD221 / .F54 2007
401/.4
Asking questions : using meaningful structures to imply ignorance / Robert Fiengo. - Oxford ; New York : University Press, [2007] - xii, 179 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780199208418 (alk. paper)
2007007678
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Knowledge, Theory of--Methodology.
Questioning.
Rhetoric.
BD221 / .F54 2007
401/.4