Asking questions using meaningful structures to imply ignorance /

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Main Author: Fiengo, Robert, 1949-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : University Press, [2007]
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Table of 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.