Elsa Pic
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elsa Pic plays a role.
Article
2014 Questioning certainty in research articles and popular science articles: A case-study of modalized wh-interrogatives Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts, Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari (eds.), pp. 369–387 | Article
This paper is a comparative study of the use of direct and indirect modalized wh-questions in research articles and popular science articles. The corpus analysis reveals that these questions are often interpreted as rhetorical questions and that they are often used to question a proposition that… read more