Rhetorical questions have received a detailed treatment in semantic studies that defined
them in terms of common ground updating, assertion and lack of information seeking. How …

This dissertation investigates rhetorical questions (RhQs) in Italian, their linguistic marking,
and their acquisition in a monolingual and a bilingual setting. RhQs are utterances with the …

The present study investigates the prosody of information-seeking (ISQs) and rhetorical
questions (RQs) in Standard Chinese, in polar and wh-questions. Like in other languages …

This paper investigates the prosodic realization of rhetorical questions (RQs) in comparison
to information-seeking questions (ISQs) in Persian, an Iranian language. In a lab setting, we …

In this paper, we compare the comprehension of the speech act meaning of non-canonical
speech acts (ie, rhetorical questions and surprise-disapproval questions) with the …

Диссертация посвящена изучению функционирования дискурсивных слов в
поэтическом дискурсе с учетом комплексного анализа, включающего методы …

The theoretical aim of this project is to get a better understanding of the so called weight
effects illustrated in examples like the following (?= a questionable example,*= a bad …