Questions : formal, functional and interactional perspectives

Questions : formal, functional and interactional perspectives

"The view that questions are 'requests for missing information' is too simple when language use is considered. Formally, utterances are questions when they are syntactically marked as such, or by prosodic marking. Functionally, questions request that certain information is made availa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruiter, Jan-Peter de , 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , c2012
Series:Language, culture and cognition 12
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Interrogative
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general > Word order
Intonation (Phonetics)

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