True to form [[electronic resource] ] : rising and falling declaratives as questions in English / / Christine Gunlogson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825376903321
• Autore: Gunlogson Christine
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2003
• ISBN: 1-135-88544-3; 962-7283-87-8; 0-415-86507-7; 1-280-07600-3; 0-203-50201-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (116 p.)
• Collana: Outstanding dissertations in linguistics
• Disciplina: 421/.6
• Soggetti: English language - Imperative; English language - Interrogative; English language - Intonation; English language - Sentences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-110) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; True to Form; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Abstract; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 Assumptions; 1.3 Previous accounts; 2. The Distribution of Declarative Questions; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Declarative bias; 2.3 Lack of Speaker commitment; 2.4 Reconciling bias with lack of commitment; 3. Modeling Bias and Neutrality; 3.1 The discourse context; 3.2 Declarative meaning and locution meaning; 3.3 Interrogative meaning; 3.4 Locutionary bias and neutrality; 3.5 Entailment, uninformativeness, and vacuousness; 3.6 Operating on commitment sets; 4. Questioning4.1 Uninformativeness and questioning; 4.2 The Contextual Bias Condition on declarative questions; 4.3 pphlar questions defined; 4.4 The distribution of rising declarative questions revisited; 4.5 What reiterative questions are good for; 5. Conclusion; 5.1 Review of the analysis; 5.2 Intonational meaning, sentence type, and context; 5.3 Future developments; 5.4 In closing; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences:1) It's raining?2) It's raining.The difference between (1) and (2) is intonational: (1) has a final rise--indicated by the question mark--while (2) ends with a fall.Christine Gunlogson's central claim is that the meaning and use of both kinds of sentences must be understood in terms of the meaning of their defining formal elements, namely declarative sentence type and rising versus falling intonation. Gunlogson supports that claim through an investigation of the use of declaratives