Asking questions

using meaningful structures to imply ignorance

Asking questions
Robert Fiengo, Robert Fiengo
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Asking questions

using meaningful structures to imply ignorance

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Asking Questions: Using meaningful structures to imply ignorance
June 8, 2007, Oxford University Press, USA
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Cover of: Asking questions
Asking questions: using meaningful structures to imply ignorance
2007, New York, University Press
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
401/.4
Library of Congress
BD221 .F54 2007

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Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17161376M
ISBN 13
9780199208418
LCCN
2007007678
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2750984

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OL3948484W

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