What else can I tell you?: a pragmatic study of English rhetorical questions as discursive and argumentative acts
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Stockholm Studies in English
LXXXII
WHAT ELSE CAN I TELL YOU?
A Pragmatic Study of English Rhetorical Questions as
Discursive and Argumentative Acts
by
Cornelia Hie
ALMQVIST amp; WIKSELL INTERNATIONAL
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Ill
Contents
Abstract ii
Acknowledgements vi
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1 0 Pre-theoretical considerations 1
1 1 Aim and method, description of the corpus 4
1 2 The organization of the study 7
Chapter 2 Rhetorical questions in a historical perspective 10
2 0 An overview of previous approaches to rhetorical questions 10
2 1 Rhetorical approaches 10
2 2 Linguistic approaches 12
221 Structuralist approaches 12
222 Transformational-generative approaches 14
2 3 Translational and cross-cultural approaches 17
14 Pragmatic approaches 24
Chapter 3 Identification and interpretation of rhetorical questions 35
3 0 Theoretical background to the present approach 35
3 1 Previous definitions of rhetorical questions 42
3 2 Distinctive features of rhetorical questions 45
321 The discrepancy between the form and the function of
rhetorical questions 46
322 The polarity shift between the rhetorical question and its implied
answer 51
323 The implicitness and the exclusiveness of the answer
to the rhetorical question 53
324 The addresser s commitment to the implicit answer 55
325 The multifunctionality of the rhetorical question 59
3 3 The theoretical frame for the analysis of rhetorical questions 60
3 4 Summary 63
Chapter 4 Answerhood in relation to questions 66
4iO Introduction 66
4 1 An overview of previous approaches to answerhood 66
IV
411 Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches to the study of answers 67
412A practical application of the probability and decision theories to
the study of answers 68
413A frame-analytical approach to the study of answers 70
414 Conversation- and discourse-analytical approaches to the study of
answers 71
4 2 Criteria for the adequacy of answerhood 72
421 Information-eliciting vs action-eliciting questions 72
422 Information-eliciting vs answer-eliciting questions 77
423 The pragmatic adequacy of answers 83
4 3 Answerhood and conduciveness in rhetorical questions 90
4 4 Summary 94
Chapter 5 Responses to rhetorical questions 98
5 0 Introduction 98
5 1 An overview of response types 98
5 2 Types of responses to rhetorical questions 101
521 Implicit vs explicit answers to rhetorical questions 102
522 Explicit answers vs replies to rhetorical questions 104
5 3 Types of explicit answers to rhetorical questions 106
531 Addresser-answers to rhetorical questions 106
532 Addressee-answers to rhetorical questions 110
5 4 Types of replies to rhetorical questions 115
541 Addresser-replies to rhetorical questions 116
542 Addressee-replies to rhetorical questions 120
5421 Acknowledging vs non-acknowledging addressee-replies 120
5422 Addressee-replies conveying agreement vs disagreement 122
5 5 Non-verbalized responses to rhetorical questions 125
5 6 Redefining rhetorical questions 127
5 7 Summary 130
Chapter 6 Rhetorical questions as discursive and argumentative
acts in political speeches 134
6 0 Introduction 134
6 1 Rhetorical features of political speeches 134
6 2 Characteristics of rhetorical questions in political speeches 138
6 3 Rhetorical questions in political speeches in terms of response
types and sequencing 142
6 4 The pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation 145
6 5 The argumentative use of rhetorical questions in political speeches 148
651 Rhetorical questions that function as standpoints 149
652 Rhetorical questions that function as arguments 150
6 6 Political rhetorical questions as fallacies 152
661 Rhetorical questions as fallacies of deductive reasoning 156
662 Rhetorical questions as fallacies of inductive reasoning 159
663 Rhetorical questions as miscellaneous fallacies 161
6 7 Summary 169
Chapter 7 Rhetorical questions as discursive and argumentative acts
in courtroom interaction 172
7 0 Introduction 172
7 1 Rhetorical features of questioning strategies in the courtroom 174
7 2 Characteristics of rhetorical questions in courtroom interaction 177
721 The functions of rhetorical questions in turn-taking 178
722 Rhetorical tag questions as answering strategies in the court 180
7 3 Legal rhetorical questions in terms of response types, institutional
roles and sequencing 183
7 4 The argumentative use of rhetorical questions in courtroom interaction 200
7 5 Legal rhetorical questions as fallacies 204
7 6 Summary 212
Chapter 8 Conclusions 216
8 0 Summary 216
8 1 Closing remarks 227
8 2 Theoretical and practical implications 228
References 230
Appendices 239
NOTE: Throughout this study, I will observe the following notational conventions Italics are used when
citing other authors, when providing excerpts from my data or when using key-terms Rhetorical
questions are in bold face, while highlighted items and responses to rhetorical questions are underlined
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