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- Book Title
- Asking Questions:Using Meaningful Structures to Imply Ignorance
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Genre
- Philosophy
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780199208418
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199208417
ISBN-13
9780199208418
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60322129
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
194 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Asking Questions : Using Meaningful Structures to Imply Ignorance
Subject
Linguistics / General
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2007-007678
Reviews
"The distinguished linguist Robert Fiengo has produced a fascinating book. Asking Questions could almost be subtitled "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Questions but Never Thought to Ask." It insightfully addresses many major questions about questions and many more smaller but equally interesting ones."--Kent Bach, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
401/.4
Table Of Content
1. Introduction: ignorance and incompleteness2. The instrumental model of talking: how to talk about talk3. Open questions, confirmation questions, and how to choose which sentence-type to use when asking them4. Quantifiers, wh-expressions, and manners of interpretation5. Syntactic structure6. On the questioning speech-acts and the kinds of ignorance they addressReferencesIndex
Synopsis
Asking Questions examines a central phenomenon of language - the use of sentences to ask questions. Although there is a sizable literature on the syntax and semantics of interrogatives, the logic of "questions", and the speech act of questioning, no one has tried to put the syntax and semantics together with the speech acts over the full range of phenomena we pretheoretically think of as asking questions. Robert Fiengo not only does this, but also takes up some more foundational issues in the theory of language. Asking Questions advances our understanding of a wide range of issues in a number of important respects. Scholars and students of linguistics and philosophy will find plenty to interest them in this pioneering work., Asking Questions examines a central phenomenon of language -- the use of sentences to ask questions. Although there is a sizable literature on the syntax and semantics of interrogatives, the logic of "questions", and the speech act of questioning, no one has tried to put the syntax and semantics together with the speech acts over the full range of phenomena we pretheoretically think of as asking questions. Robert Fiengo not only does this, but also takes up some more foundational issues in the theory of language. By positioning the findings of contemporary grammatical theorizing within the larger domain of language use, Fiengo challenges the use theorist to acknowledge the importance of grammatical form and the grammarian to acknowledge the importance of use. In addition to developing an Austinian distinction between four questioning speech-acts, and a proposal concerning the philosophy of language, Asking Questions contains a useful discussion of the type-token distinction and how use of language compares with use of other things. Fiengo also considers the nature of multiple questions, revealing what one must know to ask them, and what speech acts one may perform when asking them. Asking Questions advances our understanding of a wide range of issues in a number of important respects. Scholars and students of linguistics and philosophy will find plenty to interest them in this pioneering work., Asking Questions examines a central phenomenon of language - the use of sentences to ask questions. Although there is a sizable literature on the syntax and semantics of interrogatives, the logic of "questions", and the speech act of questioning, no one has tried to put the syntax and semantics together with the speech acts over the full range of phenomena we pretheoretically think of as asking questions. Robert Fiengo not only does this, but also takes up some more foundational issues in the theory of language. By positioning the findings of contemporary grammatical theorizing within the larger domain of language use, Fiengo challenges the use theorist to acknowledge the importance of grammatical form and the grammarian to acknowledge the importance of use. In addition to developing an Austinian distinction between four questioning speech-acts, and a proposal concerning the philosophy of language, Asking Questions contains a useful discussion of the type-token distinction and how use of language compares with use of other things. Fiengo also considers the nature of multiple questions, revealing what one must know to ask them, and what speech acts one may perform when asking them.Asking Questions advances our understanding of a wide range of issues in a number of important respects. Scholars and students of linguistics and philosophy will find plenty to interest them in this pioneering work.
LC Classification Number
P299.I57
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