| Description |
1 online resource (194 pages) |
| Contents |
Note on Punctuation; 1. Introduction: Ignorance and Incompleteness; 2. The Instrumental Model of Talking: How to Talk about Talk; 3. Open Questions, Confirmation Questions, and how to Choose which Sentence-type to Use when Asking them; 4. Quantifiers, Wh-expressions, and Manners of Interpretation; 5. Syntactic Structure; 6. On the Questioning Speech-acts and the Kinds of Ignorance they Address; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 i |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
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Knowledge, Theory of -- Methodology
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Questioning.
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Rhetoric
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rhetoric (discipline)
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REFERENCE.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
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Knowledge, Theory of -- Methodology
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Questioning
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Rhetoric
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191526015 |
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0191526010 |
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1281160539 |
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9781281160539 |
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