Asking questions using meaningful structures to imply ignorance - Fiengo, Robert, 1949- (Oxford : New York : University Press, 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-176) and index.
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Keywords: Ignorance (Theory of knowledge); Knowledge, Theory of -- Methodology; Questioning; Rhetoric; Electronic books