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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795752803321

Autore

Fiengo Robert <1949->

Titolo

Asking questions [[electronic resource] ] : using meaningful structures to imply ignorance / / Robert Fiengo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : New York, : University Press, [2007]

ISBN

0191526010

9780191526015

0-19-169573-4

9786611160531

0-19-152601-0

1-281-16053-9

1-4294-9002-0

0-19-920841-7

Descrizione fisica

xii, 179 p

Disciplina

401/.4

Soggetti

Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)

Knowledge, Theory of - Methodology

Questioning

Rhetoric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-176) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.