Deriving the Interpretation of Rhetorical Questions

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is (1) to show that RHETORICAL QUESTIONS and ORDI-NARY QUESTIONS do not pattern alike with respect to various well-formedness conditions, (2) to provide a way of deriving the interpretation of rhetorical questions as assertions, and (3) to address the question of why rhetorical

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