LEADER 02899nam 22006614a 450 001 9910450562303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-16053-9 010 $a9786611160531 010 $a0-19-152601-0 010 $a1-4294-9002-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000404513 035 $a(EBL)415100 035 $a(OCoLC)476240022 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000106473 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11644206 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106473 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10110969 035 $a(PQKB)10566323 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021949 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415100 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415100 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10271707 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL116053 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000404513 100 $a20070222d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAsking questions$b[electronic resource] $eusing meaningful structures to imply ignorance /$fRobert Fiengo 210 $aOxford $cNew York $cUniversity Press$d[2007] 215 $a1 online resource (194 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-169573-4 311 $a0-19-920841-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-176) and index. 327 $aIgnorance 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. 330 $aAsking 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 numb 606 $aIgnorance (Theory of knowledge) 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of$xMethodology 606 $aQuestioning 606 $aRhetoric 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIgnorance (Theory of knowledge) 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of$xMethodology. 615 0$aQuestioning. 615 0$aRhetoric. 676 $a401/.4 700 $aFiengo$b Robert$f1949-$0907657 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450562303321 996 $aAsking questions$92030412 997 $aUNINA