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Publication details [#32376]
Rooy, Robert Van. 2003. Questioning to Resolve Decision Problems. Linguistics and Philosophy 26 (6) : 727–763. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Kluwer
ISBN
0165-0157
Journal WWW
Annotation
It is argued that questions are asked because their answers help to resolve the questioner's decision problem, and that this assumption helps to interpret interrogative sentences.