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Interpreting interrogatives as rhetorical questions
Lingua, 2002While an ordinary question seeks information or an answer from the hearer, a rhetorical question does not expect to elicit an answer. In general, a rhetorical question has the illocutionary force of an assertion of the opposite polarity from what is apparently asked.
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2005
This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends arguing over the phone, parents disciplining children, news ...
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This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends arguing over the phone, parents disciplining children, news ...
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On so-called ‘rhetorical’ questions
Journal of Pragmatics, 1977Abstract Under the heading ‘rhetorical question’, very different kinds of sentences appear in grammars and manuals. The present paper starts from a logico-semantical definition based on the pragmatical determinedness of rhetorical questions (Belnap 1963) and limits the linguistic description to definite types exemplified in English, German, French ...
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Rhetorical Questions as Indirect Assertions
2019This chapter explores, defends and develops the implications of the view that rhetorical questions are often used to make assertions, albeit indirectly. After introducing the phenomenon through a variety of examples, reflecting on the philosophical significance of that phenomenon and defining several key terms, the author explains why she regards ...
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Are rhetorical questions stylistic or rhetoric device?!
2020Сегодня в современной лингвистической литературе существует большое количество определений риторического вопроса. Несколько ученых ранее определили риторический вопрос как тот вопрос, который не ожидает ответа. Некоторые ученые утверждают, что риторический вопрос имеет иллокутивную силу утверждения противоположной полярности от того, что, по-видимому ...
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Rhetoric and the Language Question
Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies, 2001(2001). Rhetoric and the Language Question. Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 229-238.
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The Rhetorical Question Concerning Glitch
Computers and Composition, 2015Abstract This article proposes that glitches and what has become known as glitch art offer models for expanding our current, critical approaches to rhetoric, especially as those practices concern mediation. Toward this end, this article surveys rhetorical practice as it follows Richard Lanham's (1993) concept of the bi-stable oscillation (looking at ...
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Socratic Questioning, Logic and Rhetoric
2004Analyse de la methode socratique du questionnement et de ses applications en tant que jeu strategique dans les « Topiques » d'Aristote, et modele methodologique de la logique, la dialectique et la ...
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