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Kiefer, Ferenc. 1981. Questions and attitudes. In Klein, Wolfgang H. and Willem J.M. Levelt, eds. Crossing the boundaries in linguistics: Studies presented to Manfred Bierwisch. Reidel. pp. 159–176. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
On the problem of how knowledge (in particular about the answer) is involved in the pragmatic interpretation of questions. On this basis K. claims that all types of questions can be accounted for in terms of one common semantic structure; pragmatics can account for all the rest.