Non-Canonical Questions PDF
by Andreas Trotzke
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This book is the first to present a comprehensive theory of non-canonical questions, those question types that do not (only) request information from the addressee, but rather (additionally) tell us something about the speaker's epistemic and/or emotional state, such as can't-find-the-value questions, echo questions, rhetorical questions, and surprise questions.
While much recent research has explored the formal semantics and the phonetics and phonology of bothcanonical and non-canonical questions, the literature is still lacking a comprehensive account from a syntax-pragmatics perspective that brings together the multiple findings and strands of research from the last twenty years. The standard view in the syntax-pragmatics literature is that most special interpretations of non-canonical questions involve syntactic projections at or even above the level of illocutionary force.
In this work, Andreas Trotzke argues that this approach is a mistake, and proposes a new alternative theory of non-canonical questions in which both their special pragmatics and their syntax, as well as in many cases their emotive component, can be derived solely from propositional-level operatorsthat do not affect the illocutionary level of utterances and can be found across illocutionary forces.
This account dramatically simplifies the syntactic analysis of non-canonical questions and is also able to capture some previously unobserved data in the discourse behavior of those questiontypes.
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- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:18/10/2023
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- ISBN:9780192872524
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:18/10/2023
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- ISBN:9780192872524
