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Rhetorical questions, relevance and scales [PDF]

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1998
Rhetorical questions, and other varieties of pragmatically conditioned questions, present a challenge for a purely truth-conditional theory of the interpretation of interrogatives.
Gutiérrez Rexach, Javier
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Rhetorical questions or rhetorical uses of questions? [PDF]

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2016
This paper aims to explore whether some rhetorical questions contain certain linguistic elements or forms which would differentiate them from answer-eliciting and action-eliciting questions, and thereby hint at their rhetorical nature even outside the ...
Špago Džemal
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Rhetorical question in asymmetrical interaction of school discourse [PDF]

Sinteze, 2012
This paper aims to provide further insight into the role of rhetorical question in asymmetrical interaction, that is, a verbal exchange between parties of unequal social power.
Jovičić Zorica D.
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Rhetorical questions as aggressive, friendly or sarcastic/ironical questions with imposed answers [PDF]

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2020
Rhetorical questions (RQs), as a cross-breed of questions and statements, represent an effective tool in putting forward the Speaker’s ideas, as well as influencing the ideas and opinions of other people.
Špago Džemal
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The question of rhetorical agency in scientific communication: A case study

Globe, 2019
Though rhetorical scholars have argued that scientific inquiry does not lack human agency, our knowledge of how agency is enacted in scientific texts is blurred.
Wincharles Coker
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Rhetorical Questions in Political Speech

Path of Science, 2022
В статье анализируются основные функции риторических вопросов в политической речи. В качестве языкового материала автор использует выступления политика Гейдара Алиева. Поскольку выступления Г. Алиева в основном были на азербайджанском языке, вопрос рассматривается на базе азербайджанского языка, что является весьма актуальным для азербайджанского ...
Nagdali Zamanov
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Functions of Rhetorical Questions with Words ГДЕ [gdye], КУДА [kuda] and ОТКУДА [otkuda]

Научный диалог, 2019
This article is devoted to the secondary functions of rhetorical questions with interrogative adverbs где , куда and откуда . It is shown for the first time that these rhetorical questions can be used to substantiate the speaker’s opinion, support the ...
E. B. Stepanova, Y. Zhang
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Rhetorical questions: Severing asking from questioning

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2017
Rhetorical questions (RhQs) are puzzling for theoretical accounts of questions: while they have an interrogative form, they seem to provide the same information as a parallel assertion. We propose that solving this puzzle requires a deeper understanding of the dynamics of interrogative utterances, and in particular we argue for a dynamics parallel to ...
Maria Biezma, Kyle Rawlins
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The commitment of rhetorical questions

Glossa
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.
Shigeru Miyagawa
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Les interrogatives dites rhétoriques au prisme de la théorie d’Antoine Culioli

Anglophonia, 2021
This paper focuses on the so-called rhetorical interrogatives in English, in order to show how the tools of Antoine Culioli’s Theory of Enunciative and Predicative Operations (TEPO) can help to improve their description and characterisation.
Bénédicte Guillaume
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