ABOUT THE NATURE OF INTERROGATION

Abstract

This paper analyzes the different communicative purposes which Content Interrogatives, usually called Wh- Interrogatives, are used for. Based on the principles of Functional Discourse Grammar, we propose to think the nature of interrogation from a tripartite typology: typical, rhetoric and meditative questions.

Keywords

• Interrogação
• Referenciação
• Funções interativas e discursivas.