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Question in Discourse : Volume 2: Pragmatics / Klaus von Heusinger, V.Edgar Onea Gaspar, Malte Zimmermann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface 36.
- Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface; v. 36
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pragmatics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2019.
- Summary:
- The volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 2 Pragmatics collects original research on the role of questions in understanding text structure and discourse pragmatics. The in-depth studies discuss the effects of focus, questions and givenness in unalternative semantics, as well as the role of scalar particles, question-answer pairs and prosody from the perspective of Questions under Discussion. Two contributions compare the discourse-structuring potential of Questions under Discussion and rhetorical relations, whereas another adds a perspective from inquisitive semantics. Some contributions also look at understudied languages. Together, the contributions allow for a better understanding of question-related pragmatic and discourse-semantic phenomena, and they offer new perspectives on the structure of texts and discourses.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Introduction / Malte Zimmermann , Klaus von Heusinger and Edgar Onea
- Focus, Questions and Givenness / Daniel Büring
- The Scalar Particle har’i in Ngamo (West Chadic) / Mira Grubic
- Question-Answer Pairs in Sign Languages / Annika Herrmann , Sina Proske and Elisabeth Volk
- Inferring Meaning from Indirect Answers to Polar Questions: the Contribution of the Rise-Fall-Rise Contour / Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Judith Tonhauser
- Constructing QUD Trees / Arndt Riester
- Underneath Rhetorical Relations: the Case of Result / Edgar Onea
- Two Alternatives for Disjunction: an Inquisitive Reconciliation / Floris Roelofsen
- Back Matter
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004378322
- 9004378324
- OCLC:
- 1086328882
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004378322 DOI
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