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Publication details [#23368]

Athanasiadou, Angeliki. 1991. The discourse function of questions. Pragmatics 1 (1) : 107–122.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

question

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

On the basis of an empirical analysis of English conversations, it is found that, in addition to requesting information, questions are also used for holding the hearer's attention and to control the hearer's knowledge.