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Echo Questions are Interrogatives? Another Version of a Metarepresentational Analysis

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Noh (1998a, b) analyzes echo questions in terms of metarepresentation and pragmatic enrichment within the framework of Relevance Theory. This paper argues that while the basic idea of metarepresentational analysis seems correct, it is better implemented differently.

The alternative analysis proposed in this paper consists of three claims: first, echo questions are metarepresentational with rising intonation, with the rise alone conferring the question status; second, echoquestions question the pragmatically enriched attribution; third, the focus of metarepresentation is to be distinguished from the rest of the metarepresentation.

This version of metarepresentational analysis reveals why echo questions behave the way they do, both syntactically and semantically/pragmatically. At the same time, this analysis captures not only similarities but also differences between echo questions and interrogatives on a principled basis.

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Iwata, S. Echo Questions are Interrogatives? Another Version of a Metarepresentational Analysis. Linguistics and Philosophy 26, 185–254 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022851819941

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