Questions
Edited by Moritz Cordes (University of Greifswald)
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Summary | Questions are usually identified with interrogative sentences or with what such sentences typically express. The exact definition of 'question' depends on the context in which they are the subject of study. Various phenomena are frequently associated with questions or even taken as characteristical for questions: question mark, interrogative pronoun/interrogative particle, rising intonation, inquisitive attitude, awareness of own ignorance, a goal to gain information. None of this is unanimously seen as characteristic of questions. The main issues of the works in this category concern (i) the nature of questions, (ii) the classification of questions, (iii) the role of questions in various walks of life (in philosophy, in anamnesis, in science, in criminal interrogation, etc.), and (iv) the relation of questions to knowledge and cognition. |
Introductions | While Brożek 2011 proposes her own take on questions, the work touches on almost all topics relevant to questions. Each chapter has a number of historical notes which serves as a collection of references to alternative approaches. |
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- Adverbs (35)
- Attitude Ascriptions (691 | 241)
- Conditionals (2,000 | 446)
- Connectives (354 | 28)
- Descriptions (466 | 201)
- Determiners (91 | 65)
- Generics (165)
- Indexicals and Demonstratives (602 | 126)
- Modal Expressions (386 | 74)
- Names (661 | 288)
- Nouns (477 | 162)
- Predicates (354 | 93)
- Pronouns and Anaphora (302)
- Quantifiers (1,420 | 357)
- Quotation (181)
- Temporal Expressions (457)
- Verbs (127 | 58)
- Speech Reports (51)
- Specific Expressions, Misc (95)
- Erotetic Logic (157)
- Inquiry (107)
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