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Asking questions : using meaningful structures to imply ignorance / Robert Fiengo.
LIBRA BD221 .F54 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fiengo, Robert, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge).
- Knowledge, Theory of--Methodology.
- Questioning.
- Rhetoric.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 179 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : New York : University Press, 2007.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-176) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199208418
- 0199208417
- OCLC:
- 85692793
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