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Publication details [#26709]

Uwajeh, M.K.C. 1996. Is 'May I ask you a question?' a question? Pragmatics 6 (1) : 89–109.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

This study in the domain of the pragmatics of questions, which reviews and comments Derr's (1987) definition and (sub)classification, emphasizes the important role of communication context in linguistic analysis, as postulated by performative grammar.