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Asking questions : using meaningful structures to imply ignorance / Robert Fiengo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : University Press, [2007]Description: xii, 179 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199208418 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401/.4 22
LOC classification:
  • BD221 .F54 2007
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Contents:
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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Books 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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