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Publication details [#25799]
Dumitrescu, Domnita. 1996. Rhetorical vs. nonrhetorical allo-repetition: The case of Romanian interrogatives. Journal of Pragmatics 26 (3) : 321–354.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study offers a functional description of the main types of Romanian interrogative allo-repetitions, i.e. Echo, Rhetorical and Rhechorical Questions, and relates them to conversation analysis. It is argued that echo questions serve as dialogic repair mechanisms and rhetorical devices, whilst rhetorical and rhechorical questions represent dispreferred second parts of adjacency pairs whose first parts are respectively rhetorical and non-rhetorical (but with rhetorical second part).