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Asking Questions: Using meaningful structures to imply ignorance - Hardcover

Fiengo, Robert

 
9780199208418: Asking Questions: Using meaningful structures to imply ignorance

Synopsis

Asking Questions examines a central phenomenon of language -- the use of sentences to ask questions. Although there is a sizable literature on the syntax and semantics of interrogatives, the logic of "questions", and the speech act of questioning, no one has tried to put the syntax and semantics together with the speech acts over the full range of phenomena we pretheoretically think of as asking questions. Robert Fiengo not only does this, but also takes up some more foundational issues in the theory of language.

Asking Questions advances our understanding of a wide range of issues in a number of important respects. Scholars and students of linguistics and philosophy will find plenty to interest them in this pioneering work.

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About the Author

Robert Fiengo is at the City University of New York.

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