All-Russian academic journal
“Issues of Cognitive Linguistics”
Author: Gayane R. Vlasyan, Elena A. Skorodumova
Affiliation: Chelyabinsk State University
Abstract:
The article deals with structural and pragmatic peculiarities of rhetorical questions-responses. The research approach is based on the opposition between direct and indirect speech acts and hypothesis that rhetorical questions are indirect ones. The article contains the overview of structural types of rhetorical questions-responses, description of their pragmatic characteristics and the way they function in contexts.
Keywords: pragmatics, speech act, transferred meaning, implicature.
Pages: 118-123