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Deriving the Interpretation of Rhetorical Questions (1998)
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Chung-hye Han
| Venue: | Proceedings of WCCFL 16 |
| Citations: | 14 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Han98derivingthe,
author = {Chung-hye Han},
title = {Deriving the Interpretation of Rhetorical Questions},
booktitle = {Proceedings of WCCFL 16},
year = {1998},
pages = {237--253},
publisher = {CSLI Publications}
}
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is (1) to show that RHETORICAL QUESTIONS and ORDI-NARY QUESTIONS do not pattern alike with respect to various well-formedness conditions, (2) to provide a way of deriving the interpretation of rhetorical questions as assertions, and (3) to address the question of why rhetorical
