The commitment of rhetorical questions
Rhetorical questions have received a detailed treatment in semantic studies that defined them in terms of common ground updating, assertion and lack of information seeking. How these semantic traits interact with the syntactic derivation of a rhetorical question has been less debated in the literatu...
Main Author: | Shigeru Miyagawa |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2024-02-01
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Series: | Glossa |
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Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/10360/ |
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