Introduction
Modeling the discourse pragmatics of interrogatives
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Three strands of investigation into interrogatives
- 3.A model of the discourse pragmatics of interrogatives
- 4.Contents of this special issue
- Notes
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References
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