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UNINA9910958539803321 |
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Autore |
Fiengo Robert <1949-> |
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Titolo |
Asking questions : using meaningful structures to imply ignorance / / Robert Fiengo |
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Oxford, : New York, : University Press, [2007] |
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0191526010 |
9780191526015 |
0-19-169573-4 |
9786611160531 |
0-19-152601-0 |
1-281-16053-9 |
1-4294-9002-0 |
0-19-920841-7 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 179 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) |
Knowledge, Theory of - Methodology |
Questioning |
Rhetoric |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-176) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Asking Questions examines a central phenomenon of language - the use of sentences to ask questions. Although there is a sizable literature on the syntax and semantics of interrogatives, the logic of "questions", and the speech act of questioning, no one has tried to put the syntax and semantics together with the speech acts over the full range of phenomena we pretheoretically think of as asking questions. Robert |
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