Asking questions
Subtitle: using meaningful structures to imply ignorance
By: Robert Fiengo.
Publisher: New York; University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199208418
Subjects: Ignorance (Theory of knowledge); Knowledge, Theory of -- Methodology; Questioning; Rhetoric
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ignorance and incompleteness; title: The instrumental model of talking : how to talk about talk; title: Open questions, confirmation questions, and how to choose; title: Which sentence-type to use when asking them; title: Quantifiers, wh-expressions, and manners of interpretation; title: Syntactic structure; title: On the questioning speech-acts and the kinds of ignorance they; title: Address.