Question in Discourse, Volume 2. Pragmatics

The volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 2 Pragmatics collects original research on the role of questions in understanding text structure and discourse pragmatics. The in-depth studies discuss the effects of focus, questions and givenness in unalternative semantics, as well as the role of scalar particles, question-answer pairs and prosody from the perspective of Questions under Discussion. Two contributions compare the discourse-structuring potential of Questions under Discussion and rhetorical relations, whereas another adds a perspective from inquisitive semantics. Some contributions also look at understudied languages. Together, the contributions allow for a better understanding of question-related pragmatic and discourse-semantic phenomena, and they offer new perspectives on the structure of texts and discourses.

Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; Introduction /; Focus, Questions and Givenness /; The Scalar Particle har’i in Ngamo (West Chadic) /; Question-Answer Pairs in Sign Languages /; Inferring Meaning from Indirect Answers to Polar Questions: the Contribution of the Rise-Fall-Rise Contour /; Constructing QUD Trees /; Underneath Rhetorical Relations: the Case of Result /; Two Alternatives for Disjunction: an Inquisitive Reconciliation /; Back Matter --; Index. / Malte Zimmermann , Klaus von Heusinger and Edgar Onea --; Daniel Büring --; Mira Grubic --; Annika Herrmann , Sina Proske and Elisabeth Volk --; Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Judith Tonhauser --; Arndt Riester --; Edgar Onea --; Floris Roelofsen --