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Overview"Asking Questions examines a central phenomenon of language - the use of sentences to ask questions. Although there is a sizable literature on the syntax and semantics of interrogatives, the logic of ""questions"", and the speech act of questioning, no one has tried to put the syntax and semantics together with the speech acts over the full range of phenomena we pretheoretically think of as asking questions. Robert Fiengo not only does this, but also takes up some more foundational issues in the theory of language. By positioning the findings of contemporary grammatical theorizing within the larger domain of language use, Fiengo challenges the use theorist to acknowledge the importance of grammatical form and the grammarian to acknowledge the importance of use. In addition to developing an Austinian distinction between four questioning speech-acts, and a proposal concerning the philosophy of language, Asking Questions contains a useful discussion of the type-token distinction and how use of language compares with use of other things. Fiengo also considers the nature of multiple questions, revealing what one must know to ask them, and what speech acts one may perform when asking them.Asking Questions advances our understanding of a wide range of issues in a number of important respects. Scholars and students of linguistics and philosophy will find plenty to interest them in this pioneering work." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Fiengo (, City University of New York)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.466kg ISBN: 9780199208418ISBN 10: 0199208417 Pages: 194 Publication Date: 03 May 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe book...presents a wealth of information on the use of interrogative sentence types, and offers insightful observations. It will be mandatory reading for researchers seeking comprehensive data coverage on questions and an interesting new approach to the analysis of questions and general interface issues. Yurie Hara, Journal of Linguistics This is a clever and well-written book Eirian C. Davies, Functions of Language It will be mandatory reading for researchers seeking comprehensive data coverage on questions and an interesting new approach to the analysis of questions and general interface issues. Yurie Hara, Linguistics The distinguished linguist Robert Fiengo has produced a fascinating book. Asking Questions could almost be subtitled Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Questions but Never Thought to Ask. It insightfully addresses many major questions about questions and many more smaller but equally interesting ones. Fiengo sketches a big picture of the interrogative landscape, but to me the delight is as much in the details. Kent Bach, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews The book...presents a wealth of information on the use of interrogative sentence types, and offers insightful observations. It will be mandatory reading for researchers seeking comprehensive data coverage on questions and an interesting new approach to the analysis of questions and general interface issues. Yurie Hara, Journal of Linguistics This is a clever and well-written book Eirian C. Davies, Functions of Language It will be mandatory reading for researchers seeking comprehensive data coverage on questions and an interesting new approach to the analysis of questions and general interface issues. Yurie Hara, Linguistics The distinguished linguist Robert Fiengo has produced a fascinating book. Asking Questions could almost be subtitled Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Questions but Never Thought to Ask. It insightfully addresses many major questions about questions and many more smaller but equally interesting ones. Fiengo sketches a big picture of the interrogative landscape, but to me the delight is as much in the details. Kent Bach, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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