{"product_id":"questions-in-discourse-volume-2-pragmatics-9789004378315","title":"Questions in Discourse: Volume 2: Pragmatics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction  Malte Zimmermann, Klaus von Heusinger and Edgar Onea   2 Focus, Questions and Givenness  Daniel Büring   3 The Scalar Particle har’i in Ngamo (West Chadic)  Mira Grubic   4 Question-Answer Pairs in Sign Languages  Annika Herrmann, Sina Proske and Elisabeth Volk   5 Inferring Meaning from Indirect Answers to Polar Questions: the Contribution of the Rise-Fall-Rise Contour  Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Judith Tonhauser   6 Constructing QUD Trees  Arndt Riester   7 Underneath Rhetorical Relations: the Case of Result  Edgar Onea   8 Two Alternatives for Disjunction: an Inquisitive Reconciliation  Floris Roelofsen   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210757988695,"sku":"9789004378315","price":104.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/questions-in-discourse-volume-2-pragmatics-9789004378315","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}