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Publication details [#10623]
Davies, Eirian C. 1988. English questions: A 'significance-generating device' for building in context. In Steiner, Erich and Robert Veltman, eds. Pragmatics, discourse and text: Some systematically inspired approaches. Pinter. pp. 28–45.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
A study of English positive polar interrogatives (yes/no-questions), with reflections on semantic structure, contextual aspects, and pragmatic aspects.