02827nam 22006134a 450 991082186910332120240418141425.0019152601097801915260150-19-169573-497866111605310-19-152601-01-281-16053-91-4294-9002-00-19-920841-7(MiAaPQ)EBC7038986(CKB)24235119600041(MiAaPQ)EBC415100(Au-PeEL)EBL415100(CaPaEBR)ebr10271707(CaONFJC)MIL116053(OCoLC)476240022(EXLCZ)992423511960004120070222d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAsking questions[electronic resource] using meaningful structures to imply ignorance /Robert Fiengo1st ed.Oxford New York University Press[2007]xii, 179 p9780199208418 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 upsome more foundational issues in the theory of language.Asking Questions advances our understanding of a wide range of issues in a number of important respects. Scholars and students of linguistics and philosophy will find plenty to interest them in this pioneering work.Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)Knowledge, Theory ofMethodologyQuestioningRhetoricIgnorance (Theory of knowledge)Knowledge, Theory ofMethodology.Questioning.Rhetoric.401/.4Fiengo Robert1949-1599704MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821869103321Asking questions4095020UNINA