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Publication details [#29905]

Maynard, Senko K. 1995. Interrogatives that seek no answers: exploring the expressiveness of rhetorical interrogatives in Japanese. Linguistics 33 (3) : 501–530.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | function | interrogative1 | meaning | rhetorical question

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper explores the meanings and functions of rhetorical interrogative expressions in Japanese and proposes a framework in which different interpretations are motivated by the context of information statuses.