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Ilie, Cornelia. 1994. What Else Can I Tell You? A Pragmatic Study of English Rhetorical Questions as Discursive and Argumentative Acts. (Stockholm Studies in English 82). Almqvist & Wiksell International. vii + 248 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
courtroom conversation | political language | rhetorical question | transcription system
Language as a subject
English

Annotation

The author, using transcripts of talk in various settings, develops a theory categorizing rhetorical questions by 'answerhood' and by the variety of responses they are meant to invoke and then examines political and legal variants.

Reviewed by

Henry, Richard. 1997. Review of $What Else Can I Tell You? A Pragmatic Study of English Rhetorical Questions as Discursive and Argumentative Acts.