Questions and epistemic stance: Some examples from Italian conversations

Through the analysis of presuppositions, question design, social action and preference organisation in short fragments of Italian question-answer sequences, this paper aims to show that (1) wh-questions, on the one hand, and alternative and polar questions (i.e., polar interrogatives, tag and declar...

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Main Authors: Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni, Laura Vincze, Andrzej Zuczkowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-01-01
Series:Ampersand
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039018300444