'Surely that’s not a negative declarative question?' – Polar discourses in Swedish, German and English
| Autor: | Seeliger, Heiko |
|---|---|
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| DOI: | 10.18148/sub/2015.v19i0.251 |
| Popis: | This paper discusses questions that are declarative in form, contain a negative marker, and express epistemic speaker bias. Fronting of the negative marker in Swedish is taken as a starting point for a delineation of this type of question, termed ‘rejecting question’, against the background of theories of declarative questions. The discussion is expanded with data from German and English. I propose that rejecting questions are a type of tentative assertion without direct reference to the addressee, and that these tentative assertions express FALSUM focus. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 19 (2015): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|