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Automatic Identification of Rhetorical Questions
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), 2015A question may be asked not only to elicit information, but also to make a statement. Questions serving the latter purpose, called rhetorical questions, are often lexically and syntactically indistinguishable from other types of questions. Still, it is desirable to be able to identify rhetorical questions, as it is relevant for many NLP tasks ...
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Rhetorical questions as reproaching devices
Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 2022Abstract This paper studies rhetorical questions containing cognitive verbs that function as reproaches in Spanish. Its two main goals are to determine the degree of specialization of rhetorical questions as reproaches and to examine the characterization of reproaching as a speech act, indicating the distinctive features that distinguish ...
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Rhetorical Question—Not Statement of Fact
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1977To the Editor. — I wish to thank the editors ofThe Journalfor publishing my commentary, "Family Practice: Here Today, Gone (Again) Tomorrow" (238:217, 1977). However, I would like to point out an important editorial error. This was in failing to put a question mark after the title.
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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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