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In this paper I am going to discuss some types of yes-no questions which — under normal circumstances — cannot be answered equally well by a plain ‘yes’ or a plain ‘no’. My account of these questions will principally be based on the theory of indirect speech acts and the theory of conversation.
The work reported here was carried out within the framework of the cooperation between the Institute for Information Sciences (KVAL), Stockholm and the Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
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Kiefer, F. (1980). Yes-No Questions as Wh-Questions. In: Searle, J.R., Kiefer, F., Bierwisch, M. (eds) Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics. Texts and Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8964-1_5
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