Asking questions [[electronic resource] ] : using meaningful structures to imply ignorance / / Robert Fiengo

• Autore: Fiengo Robert <1949->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : New York, : University Press, [2007]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 179 p
• Disciplina: 401/.4
• Soggetto topico: Ignorance (Theory of knowledge); Knowledge, Theory of - Methodology; Questioning; Rhetoric
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-176) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Asking questions
• ISBN: 0191526010; 9780191526015; 0-19-169573-4; 9786611160531; 0-19-152601-0; 1-281-16053-9; 1-4294-9002-0; 0-19-920841-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821869103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II