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Publication details [#23428]

Rakic, Stanimir. 1984. Serbo-Croatian yes/no-questions and speech acts. Journal of Pragmatics 8 (5-6) : 693–713.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

rhetorical question | speech act type | yes-no question

Language as a subject

Serbo-Croatian

Journal WWW

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Annotation

On the basis of an analysis of Serbo-Croatian yes/no questions, the authors shows that this type of questions can be presumptive, dubitative, and rhetorical speech acts, and not only informative ones.