Interpreting interrogatives as rhetorical questions

Han, Chung–hye

doi:10.1016/s0024-3841(01)00044-4

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“…The presence of ever in wh-questions leads us to understand such questions as rhetorical: Although Han (2002) shows that wh-questions with who that include ever can also be interpreted as answer-eliciting, 10 they are often interpreted as RQs, which is supported by he results of this study. Namely, examples of such RQs from our corpus can only have rhetorical interpretation: (6) ALFIERI: Who can ever know what will be discovered?…”

Section: Don't Have Any Questions (*I Have Any Questions)supporting

confidence: 63%

“…(Zwarts, 1996;Han 2002 However, the results obtained in this study indicate that RQs that include such strong NPIs are extremely rare, since only 5 out of 1205 of RQs from our corpus (0.4%) had such form.…”

Section: Don't Have Any Questions (*I Have Any Questions)mentioning

confidence: 58%

“…Such questions, in most cases, already imply an answer that seems obvious to both the addressor and the addressee. They have the illocutionary force of a statement of opposite polarity from that of the question (Sadock, 1974;Han, 2002 Such implicit statements, presented in the form of questions, are often more powerful and effective, and have more influence on addressees than direct statements (Frank, 1990), which is one of the reasons for the frequent use of RQs in communication.…”

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confidence: 99%

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This paper aims to explore whether some rhetorical questions contain certain linguistic elements or forms which would differentiate them from answer-eliciting and action-eliciting questions, and thereby hint at their rhetorical nature even outside the context. Namely, despite the fact that the same questions can be rhetorical in one context, and answer-eliciting in another, some of them are more likely to be associated with rhetorical or non-rhetorical use. The analysis is based on extensive data (over 1200 examples of rhetorical questions taken from 30 plays by two British and two American writers), and the results are expected to give an insight into whether we can talk about rhetorical questions or just a rhetorical use of questions.

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2016

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“…Anzilotti (1982), J. Frank (1990), C. Ilie (1994), C. Han (2002), I. Koshik (2005), H. Rohde (2006).…”

Section: La Noción De Interrogación Retórica: Definición Y Valores Tementioning

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La interrogación retórica a la luz de la gramática del texto

Serra

2009

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ResumenLas operaciones de cohesión y coherencia textual han sido analizadas, mayoritariamente, a partir del estudio de mecanismos léxicos o gramaticales. En este trabajo se propone una ampliación de las marcas de cohesión y coherencia prototípicas a partir de la descripción de la interrogación retórica como una estructura pragmática compleja encaminada a la articulación de funciones metadiscursivas de (i) apertura secuencial o textual, (ii) cierre secuencial o textual y (iii) avance discursivo. Asimismo, tomando en consideración que la interrogación retórica incorpora un componente de significado proposicional, se vincularán las funciones textuales señaladas con el desarrollo de diversas instrucciones argumentativas o con el asentamiento de una fuerza ilocutiva coorientada con el acto de habla global que se deduce del texto en el que se integra dicha estructura.PALABRAS CLAVE: cohesión, coherencia, interrogación retórica, lingüística del texto, cartas al director AbstractCohesion and coherence have been analyzed using lexical or grammatical mechanisms. In this paper, I propose a wide view of the archetypical items of cohesion and coherence. Thus, I expose a description of the rhetorical question as a complex pragmatic structure that operates not only as metadiscursive statement that is able to open or close sequences, but as a mechanism of the discourse advance. Equally, I pretend demonstrate that the textual functions of rhetorical questions are linked to the accession of an illocutive force, cooriented with the speech act of the whole text.KEY WORDS: cohesion, coherence, rhetorical question, textual linguistics, editor letter IntroducciónLos estudios en torno al texto en tanto que unidad de análisis supraoracional con sentido comunicativo completo se han sustentado, por una parte, en la descripción de los mecanismos que permiten la cohesión de un conjunto de proposiciones articuladas de forma unitaria y, por otra, en el afianzamiento de la coherencia en relación tanto con los vínculos semánti-cos derivados de tales proposiciones, como con las variables pragmáticoenunciativas en las que se inserta la emisión del texto. En palabras de H. Calsamiglia y A. Tusón, la coherencia «es un concepto que se refiere al significado del texto en su totalidad, abarcando tanto las relaciones entre las palabras con el contexto como las relaciones entre las palabras en el interior del mismo texto», mientras que la cohesión «constituye una de las manifestaciones de

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“…Sadock (1971) and other scholars argue that rhetorical questions-though in the form of interrogatives-actually state "an assertion of the opposite from what is apparently asked" (Han 2002: 202). As pointed out by Han (2002), "other studies on rhetorical questions. .…”

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Nandao-Questions as a Special Kind of Rhetorical Questions

2012

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This paper addresses the syntax and semantics of a special kind of Rhetorical Question (RQ) in Mandarin, i.e. questions with nandao (nandao-Q). Nandao-Qs necessarily have rhetorical question readings. To derive this, I propose that nandao is a WH-word which takes a question denoting a single proposition and turns it into a set with the complement proposition. This analysis differs significantly from earlier proposals for deriving RQ meanings as asserting the negation of the proposition denoted by its IP (cf. Sadock 1971; Han 2002 a.o.). The degenerate question nature of nandao-Q can explain why nandao-Q, unlike Ordinary Questions (OQ), cannot be embedded under [+wh] selecting words like wen 'ask' and zhidao 'know'.

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Interpreting interrogatives as rhetorical questions

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Rhetorical questions or rhetorical uses of questions?

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