Fiengo, Robert, 1949-

Asking questions using meaningful structures to imply ignorance / [electronic resource] : Robert Fiengo. - Oxford : New York : University Press, [2007] - xii, 179 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-176) and index.

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.


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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Knowledge, Theory of--Methodology.
Questioning.
Rhetoric.


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