Rhetorical questions, relevance and scales
| Autor: | Javier Gutiérrez Rexach |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Předmět: |
Análisis semántico-pragmático
Embryology lcsh:PR1-9680 Logical consequence Lingüística comparada Teoría de la relevancia Negación Meaning (philosophy of language) Interrogación retórica Análisis del discurso Rhetorical question Relevance (law) License Interrogative word lcsh:English language Interpretation (philosophy) Philosophy Scale (chemistry) Polaridad negativa Cell Biology Usos lingüísticos lcsh:English literature Epistemology lcsh:PE1-3729 Anatomy Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, Iss 11, p 139 (1998) RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante Universidad de Alicante (UA) |
| ISSN: | 2171-861X 0214-4808 |
| DOI: | 10.14198/raei.1998.11.11 |
| Popis: | Rhetorical questions, and other varieties of pragmatically conditioned questions, present a challenge for a purely truth-conditional theory of the interpretation of interrogatives. In this paper, it is argued that relevance-theoretic principles account for the conditions of use of rhetorical questions. Concretely, it is proposed that a pragmatic principle, the "Bottom of Scale Principle", critically interacts with the Principle of Relevance and derives the dynamic meaning of the rhetorical use of a question. The Bottom of Scale Principle is also associated with the particular entailment and monotonicity properties of interrogatives, which explain the ability of rhetorical questions to license negative polarity items. |
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