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 both canonical 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 operators that 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 question types.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
December 2023 |
| Authors: |
Andreas Trotzke
(Professor)
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 153mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-287228-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-19-287228-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780192872289 |
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