Asking questions : using meaningful structures to imply ignorance / Robert Fiengo.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : University Press, [2007]Description: xii, 179 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780199208418 (alk. paper)
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- BD221 .F54 2007
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Books | Humanities and Socal Sciences Library Collection General Collection | Fiction | BD221 .F54 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 171852 |
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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