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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 and Ruminations

Art/Research International, 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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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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Insulting Rhetorical Questions – Mitigators or Amplifiers?

Respectus Philologicus, 2022
The paper examines whether rhetorical questions (RQs) with insulting content or implications soften or intensify the insulting content that they express, as compared to corresponding direct statements with similar insulting content.
Džemal Špago
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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 in the Daodejing: Argument Construction, Dialogical Insertion, and Sentimental Expression

Religions, 2022
This paper provides a typology of rhetorical questions in the Daodejing and examines their functions on rhetorical effects and argumentative construction.
Ai Yuan
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Religious Translation between Arabic and English, with Reference to Quranic Rhetorical Questions

Respectus Philologicus, 2021
Translating rhetorical questions from one language into another is not an easy task at all. This is due to the fact that rhetorical questions are not posed to elicit information, but rather to denote something else, namely rhetorical functions or ...
Ibrahim Najjar, Kais Amir Kadhim
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Irrealis-marked interrogatives as rhetorical questions

Open Linguistics, 2023
I describe and compare two strategies to form rhetorical questions (RQs) in Sm’algyax (Tsimshianic). I show that one kind is isomorphic to ordinary, information-seeking questions, and is compatible with positive and negative answers, while the second is ...
Brown Colin
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THE INTONATION OF RHETORICAL QUESTIONS IN ITALIAN

Italiano LinguaDue, 2023
This research focuses on the intonation of rhetorical questions (RQs) in Italian. RQs are non-prototypical questions characterised by specific pragmatic features such as indirect and obvious meaning and the absence of an informative answer.
Patrizia Sorianello
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