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Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2018 This paper presents a descriptive and typological study of rhetorical questions. The first part describes the form and functions of rhetorical questions in Papuan Malay.
Angela Kluge
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Discourse Deixis and Anaphora in L2 Writing
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2019 This study investigates the use of it, this, and that by L1 Turkish learners of English in academic writings from two perspectives: Rhetorical Structure Theory (Marcu, 2000) and Relevance Theory (Sperber & Wilson, 1986/95).
Derya Cokal
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Inquiry and Reply in the Works of Nasser Khosrow [PDF]
نثرپژوهی ادب فارسی, 2016 Nasser Khosrow (394-481 AH), the authoritative poet-author, is one of the outstanding figures of the 5th century AH. He considered science and knowledge as the highest levels, and valued them greatly. His scientific approach accompanied by his pragmatism
Omid Vahdanifar +2 more
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Accusation, Anger, and Defense: Rhetorical Questions in Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, and Judges
ReligionsRhetorical questions are used in a variety of ways in the Hebrew Bible. These questions, as found in Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, and Judges, show a strong emotional component, often of anger, and are part of the linguistic structure of accusation and ...
Rachel Nabulsi
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Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2019 The article explores German discourse particles (DiPs) in rhetorical wh-questions (wh-RQs). While schon (roughly ‘unexpectedly’) only marks rhetorical wh-questions, denn (roughly ‘I wonder’) marks contextually arising information-seeking or rhetorical ...
Viesel Yvonne, Freitag Constantin
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Brazilian Portuguese in-situ wh-interrogatives between rhetoric and change
Glossa, 2019 Previous studies of the historical development of partial interrogatives have postulated a change from contexts in which the proposition of the interrogative has been explicitly mentioned in the previous discourse, to contexts in which the proposition is
Malte Rosemeyer
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University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2020 This study deals with the utilization of Persuasive and Rhetorical Strategies used by Prime Minister Imran Khan in his address to the nation on 17th March, 2020. This address was made in the background of Covid-19 pandemic.
Naeema Shah
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Rhetorical questions or rhetorical uses of questions?
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)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 ...
Džemal Špago
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A multi-cue study to the interpretation of German information-seeking and rhetorical questions
Laboratory PhonologyThe meaning of an utterance can be conveyed by a number of prosodic cues, but their relative contribution is often unclear. We tested the interpretation of German questions as information-seeking (Experiment 1) and rhetorical (Experiment 2) in large ...
Angela James +6 more
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Research on Rhetorical Devices in German: The Use of Rhetorical Questions in Sales Presentations. [PDF]
J Psycholinguist Res, 2022 Neitsch J, Niebuhr O.
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