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Intonation and Discourse: Biased Questions

Year: 2007

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This paper surveys a range of constructions in which prosody affects discourse function and discourse structure.We discuss English tag questions, negative polar questions, and what we call "focus" questions.We postulate that these question types are complex speech acts and outline an analysis in Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) to account for the interactions between prosody and discourse.

Source: Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Authors: Nicholas Asher, Brian Reese

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2183210400

FWCI: 1.552

Cites: 33

Cited by: 100

Related to: 10