02899nam 22006614a 450 991045056230332120200520144314.01-281-16053-997866111605310-19-152601-01-4294-9002-0(CKB)1000000000404513(EBL)415100(OCoLC)476240022(SSID)ssj0000106473(PQKBManifestationID)11644206(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106473(PQKBWorkID)10110969(PQKB)10566323(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021949(MiAaPQ)EBC415100(Au-PeEL)EBL415100(CaPaEBR)ebr10271707(CaONFJC)MIL116053(EXLCZ)99100000000040451320070222d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAsking questions[electronic resource] using meaningful structures to imply ignorance /Robert FiengoOxford New York University Press[2007]1 online resource (194 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-169573-4 0-19-920841-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-176) and index.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.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 Fiengo not only does this, but also takes up some. more foundational issues in the theory of language. Asking Questions advances our understanding of a wide range of issues in a numbIgnorance (Theory of knowledge)Knowledge, Theory ofMethodologyQuestioningRhetoricElectronic books.Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)Knowledge, Theory ofMethodology.Questioning.Rhetoric.401/.4Fiengo Robert1949-907657MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450562303321Asking questions2030412UNINA