About rhetorical questions with a negative polarity (on a contrastive-comparative materiel of English and Russian)

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.2-17.015

Ragosina Inna F.,

PhD in Philolоgy, Associated Professor,

Departement of Linguistics

“Dubna” State University, Dubna, Russia

e-mail: vadeeva@mail.ru 

It has been stated that the rhetorical question (RQ) with a negative polarity can appear as a responsive utterance in two types of a dialogue that is cooperative and polemic. Depending of that, they carry objective (descriptive) and polemic negation loaded with different modal shades. A specific type of dialogue has been discovered in which RQs serving as an initiating utterance are imparted with a negative-evaluating meaning (blame). An utterance-response represents justification.

Keywords: negative polarity, cooperative dialogue, polemic dialogue, objective negation, polemic negation, related modal meaning, rhetorical indicators.

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