Form and Function of Negative, Tag, and Rhetorical Questions
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While interrogative clauses often function as neutral requests for information, they do not always do so. We will concentrate on three question types which, besides raising an issue, convey speaker bias and in which negation and negation-dependent items play an important role: (i) biased information-seeking polar questions, (ii) tag questions, and (iii) rhetorical questions. To model the pragmatic use-conditions of these question types, a more articulated representation of discourse has been developed, encompassing different epistemic states, Common ground managing operators, complex speech acts, and/or the scoreboard discourse model.
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Vol 15
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pp. 533-549
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Vol 11
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pp. 151-163
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Vol 5
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pp. 55-62
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Vol 2
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pp. 124-132
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Vol 47
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pp. 34-35
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