… profile of the two answer types shows, the system of two polar answer options is an
inherently asymmetrical one. Repetition-type answers and interjection-type answers are not two …

… interest for them has been the relationship between the answer and the polarity of the question,
and ways in which the answer agrees or disagrees with the assumptions encoded in the …

… This paper will argue that answers to polar questions or yes/no-… a polarity variable with
two possible values, affirmative or negative, which is assigned a value by the focused polarity …

… polar questions spelling out only one alternative, like in (2), as PolQs. However, we can also
have polar … Possible answers to polar questions are typically marked with yes and no, where …

… Therefore, we will propose that the speaker prefers to ask that type of polar question for
which the utility of the positive answer is higher or equal to that of its negative counterpart: …

… polar question operator PQ as in (12), where S[I] is a polar … answer, we capture the weak
bias of positive polar questions towards a positive answer and the weak bias of negative polar …

… answers express different types of uncertainty. The analysis of polar questions and answers
… into account in the semantic-pragmatic analysis of polar questioning; on the other hand, it …

… The default interpretation of (1a) is that of a polar question (… The answer offered in this paper
is yes, in both cases. I … in the interpretation of the possible answers. This difference in the …

… As one of our main goals is to answer this question at the semantic/pragmatic level, we will
be returning to this issue in a number of ways, but here we start with the syntax. Once again …

… Will there be shifts in how we answer the question, Who cares? Will polar and climate
opinions become less politically aligned over time, in the wake of IPY and other new research? …