Interrogative structures in the written didactic discourse

Abstract

This paper starts from the premise that interrogative structures have significant impact on verbal behaviour and human behaviour, in general. Our analysis of this particular type of discourse is based on the assertions of E. Benveniste, according to whom interrogation is one of the fundamental speech acts of interhuman behaviour, alongside of assertion and imperative structures.

Keywords

• emphatic stress
• interrogative word
• discourse
• disjunction
• epistemic
• erotetics
• alternative interrogative
• partial interrogative
• total interrogative
• interrogation
• question
• modalization
• erotetic pragmatics
• interrogative structure