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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 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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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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Attribution of de re propositional attitudes as a means of persuasion

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2023
By de re propositional attitude ascription for rhetorical purposes, we will understand ut­tering a modal statement wherein the speaker deliberately uses a description of the attitude’s object which she knows to be unavailable to the attitude holder.
Daniel B. Tiskin
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The Secondary Purposes of Rhetorical Questions in the Holy Quran [PDF]

مطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2012
Questions are real if they are about what we do not know. But, sometimes they are used for purposes other than this primary purpose. In such cases, they are referred to as rhetorical questions.
محمود خورسندی, سمیه ترحمی, علیرضا خورسندی   +2 more
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Rhetorical questions as aggressive, friendly or sarcastic/ironical questions with imposed answers

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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Rhetorical Questions and Ruminations

Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Transitioning from graduate student to early career faculty can often provoke uncertainty and questioning. This study explores the rhetorical and revealing nature of such questioning (i.e., Am I really this lost? Am I in the right place?).
Libba Willcox, Kate McCormick
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The Feigned Ignorance of Judas. Rhetorical Question from the Category interrogatio/ἐρώτημα in Matt 26:25

Verbum Vitae, 2022
The article analyzes the utterance made by Judas in the Cenacle (1) in the context of his efforts to hand Jesus over to the chief priests (Matt 26:14–25).
Zbigniew Grochowski
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“Beat the Devil, Beat the Devil, Beat the Devil, Beat the…”: Kenneth Burke on the Cleansing of Tensions, Both Comic and Tragic [PDF]

Литература двух Америк, 2020
There is no question but that Kenneth Burke transformed twentieth century scholarship in rhetorical studies—although too often scholars’ emphasis on identification has led them to neglect other portions of the Burkean canon with important implications ...
Bryan Crable
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L’écriture romanesque d’Édouard Glissant : une stratégie rhétorique subversive, une anti-poétique et une esthétique composite

Symbolon, 2023
Edouard Glissant’s Romantic Fiction: A Subversive Rhetorical Strategy, an Anti-Poetic and a Composite Aesthetic Edouard Glissant denounces all forms of standardization, which model cultures to which he proposes an erratic and eccentric thought.
Mohamed Lamine Rhimi
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