Chapter 5
Speech functions
Article outline
- 5.1Towards a systematic description of the speech functions of English TQs
- 5.2Speech function types of TQs
- 5.2.1Questions
- 5.2.2Statements
- 5.2.3
Statement-question blends
- 5.2.4Responses
- 5.2.4.1TQs responding to a statement
- 5.2.4.2
TQs responding to a wh-interrogative
- 5.2.4.3TQs responding to a polar interrogative
- 5.2.4.4TQs responding to a TQ
- 5.2.5Desired actions
- 5.2.6Ambiguous TQs
- 5.3
Comparison of the speech function types and their features
- 5.3.1A brief overview of the speech function types
- 5.3.2A flowchart approach to the classification of TQs into speech functions
- 5.3.3Comparing speech functions in relation to their main properties
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Notes