Asking questions : using meaningful structures to imply ignorance

Asking questions : using meaningful structures to imply ignorance / Robert Fiengo.

'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.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fiengo, Robert, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Knowledge, Theory of > Methodology.
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Questioning.
Rhetoric.
rhetoric (discipline)
REFERENCE.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary.
Knowledge, Theory of > Methodology
Questioning
Rhetoric
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items