Varieties of questions in English conversation [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth G. Weber
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| Autore: |
Weber Elizabeth G
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| Titolo: |
Varieties of questions in English conversation [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth G. Weber
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 425 |
| Soggetto topico: | English language - Interrogative |
| English language - Spoken English | |
| English language - Variation | |
| Questions and answers | |
| Conversation | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | VARIETIES OF QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH CONVERSATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1. The Problem: The Relationship between Discourse and Grammar; Chapter 2. Analytical Procedures and Principles; Chapter 3. Methodology; Chapter 4. Declarative Questions: Morphosyntactic Patterns; Chapter 5. Declarative Questions: Function; Chapter 6. Nonclausal Questions: Morphosyntactic Patterns; Chapter 7. Nonclausal Questions: Function; Chapter 8. The Many-to-Many Relations of Lexical and Morphosyntactic Markers of Question Function; Chapter 9. Conclusions; Notes |
| AppendixReferences; Index; The series Studies in Discourse and Grammar | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book examines relations which hold between morphosyntactic form and communicative function in discourse by examining form-function correlations of noninterrogative questions in ordinary English conversation. So-called nontypical declarative and nonclausal questions are identified functionally. The role morphosyntax plays in the production and interpretation of these forms as doing questioning is then considered. Speakers are shown to use specific patterns of morphosyntactic marking to enable recipients to interpret noninterrogatives as functional questions. Explanations for morphosyntacti |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Varieties of questions in English conversation |
| ISBN: | 9786613092694 |
| 90-272-8585-3 | |
| 1-283-09269-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456272603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in discourse and grammar ; ; v. 3.