Bongelli-etal2018
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Bongelli-etal2018 |
| Author(s) | Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni, Laura Vincze, Andrzej Zuczkowski |
| Title | Questions and epistemic stance: Some examples from Italian conversations |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Italian, Epistemics, Wh-questions, Questions |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Ampersand |
| Volume | 5 |
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| Pages | 29–44 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.amper.2018.11.001 |
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Abstract
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 declarative questions), on the other, come from two different epistemic positions: unknowing and uncertain, respectively; (2) alternative and polar questions convey different degrees of uncertainty, thus placing themselves in different points along the epistemic continuum of the uncertain position.
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