“Rhetorical question” in linguistics and speech
... described. It is shown that the general principle of using the word ‘rhetorical’ in discourse in relation to a question is that this question is ‘not genuine’ in some way, i. e. it is a question that is not being asked in order to get the answer. To characterize a question as rhetorical, two parameters are significant: “Why does this question not require an answer?” and “For what purpose is this statement being made, if not to get an answer?” By calling (his own or someone ...
Units of the lexical-semantic group ‘Information search and receipt’ as personifying metaphors in Russian poetry
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Golubeva-Monatkina, N. I., 2004. Voprosy i otvety dialogicheskoi rechi. Klassifikatsionnoe issledovanie [Questions and answers of dialogical ...
