Bongelli-etal2018

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Bongelli-etal2018
BibType ARTICLE
Key Bongelli-etal2018
Author(s) Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni, Laura Vincze, Andrzej Zuczkowski
Title Questions and epistemic stance: Some examples from Italian conversations
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Tag(s) EMCA, Italian, Epistemics, Wh-questions, Questions
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Year 2018
Language English
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Journal Ampersand
Volume 5
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Pages 29–44
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DOI 10.1016/j.amper.2018.11.001
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Abstract

Through the analysis of presuppositions, question design, social action and preference organisation in short fragments of Italian question-answer sequences, this paper aims to show that (1) wh-questions, on the one hand, and alternative and polar questions (i.e., polar interrogatives, tag and declarative questions), on the other, come from two different epistemic positions: unknowing and uncertain, respectively; (2) alternative and polar questions convey different degrees of uncertainty, thus placing themselves in different points along the epistemic continuum of the uncertain position.

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