Rhetorical Questions　後藤リサ著　ひつじ書房 Rhetorical Questions　後藤リサ著　ひつじ書房
2018年2月刊行

Hituzi Language Studies No.3

Rhetorical Questions: A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Interrogative Utterances in English and Japanese

後藤リサ著

ブックデザイン　白井敬尚形成事務所

菊判上製カバー装　208頁　定価10000円＋税

ISBN 978-4-89476-883-3

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【内容】
本書は、日本語および英語における修辞疑問文の発話解釈の仕組みを、関連性理論の枠組で探究するものである。従来の修辞疑問文研究の中で典型的に扱われてきた反語タイプの発話例のみならず、非反語タイプの発話例や、さらには弱いレベルで修辞性が伝達され情報要請との境界線があいまいな例、皮肉などの話者態度を伴うことで修辞性が暗に示される例等の非典型例も分析対象とし、包括的な修辞性の認知メカニズムを解明する。



【Contents】
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Notations

CHAPTER 1 Are Interrogative Utterances Asking Anything?

CHAPTER 2 What Rhetorical Questions Are: The Pragmatic Properties of Interrogative Utterances
2.1 Classical Views
2.2 Defi ning Rhetorical Questions
2.3 What Are Information-Seeking Questions?
2.4 The Speech Act Theoretic Approach
2.4.1 The Classifi cation of Speech Acts
2.4.2 Requests for Information and Indirect Requests
2.4.3 The Limitations of Speech Act Theory
2.5 Against Speech Act Theory: Wilson and Sperber
2.5.1 Types of Questions
2.6 Against Speech Act Theory: A New Analysis
2.6.1 Assertive Force and Directive Force
2.6.2 Can Assertive Force Be Measured?
2.6.3 Do Rhetorical Questions Assert Polarity-Reversed Assumptions?
2.7 The Answer to a Rhetorical Question
2.8 Conclusion

CHAPTER3 The Continuum of Rhetoricity
3.1 Borderline Cases: Information-Seeking or Rhetorical?
3.1.1 Complex Questions and Rhetoricity
3.1.2 Vain Questions and Rhetoricity
3.1.3 Other Rhetorically Biased Question Types
3.2 Rhetorically Ambiguous Questions
3.2.1 Felicitous Conditions for Information-Seeking Questions
3.3 Rhetoricity as Scale and Continuum
3.4 Clues to Rhetorical Bias in Questions
3.4.1 Interrogative Mood
3.4.2 Expressive Function
3.4.3 Answers and Retorts in Question-Answer Sequences
3.5 Conclusion

CHAPTER 4 Triply Interpretive Use: Relevance Theory and Interrogative Utterances
4.1 The Principles of Relevance
4.2 Interpreting Utterances and Thoughts
4.2.1 Explicit Meaning, Implicit Meaning, and Speakers’ Attitudes
4.2.2 Propositional Attitudes in Interrogative Utterances
4.2.3 Rhetorical Questions and Speakers’ Attitudes
4.3 Interpretive Resemblance
4.3.1 Descriptive and Interpretive Representation
4.3.2 Interrogatives and Desirable Thoughts
4.4 Metaphor and Irony in Interrogative Utterances
4.4.1 Metaphorical Expressions and Narrowing/Broadening
4.4.2 Irony as Attributive Use
4.4.3 Triply Interpretive Use in Echoic Interrogative Utterances
4.5 Meanings and Truth Conditions
4.5.1 Gricean Conversational Implicature
4.5.2 Conventional Implicature
4.5.3 An Alternative Approach: Conceptual and Procedural Meanings
4.6 Conclusion

CHAPTER 5 Rhetorical Questions and Irony: The Echoic Hypothesis
5.1 The Continuum of Rhetoricity Revisited
5.2 Ironical Questions
5.2.1 Traditional Accounts of Verbal Irony
5.2.2 Kawakami’s Cognitive Theory of Irony
5.2.3 Polarity-Reversed Assumptions in Rhetorical Questions
5.2.4 Non-Polarity-Reversed Rhetorical Questions: Recognizing Discrepancies
5.3 Echoic Interpretation
5.3.1 Wilson and Sperber’s Echoic Hypothesis
5.3.2 Universal Desires and Echoing
5.3.3 Other Echoic Approaches: Allusional Pretense and Implicit Display
5.3.4 What Do Borderline Cases of Verbal Irony Refer To?
5.4 Echo in Rhetorical Questions
5.4.1 Echo in Polarity-Reversed Rhetorical Questions
5.4.2 Echo in Non-Polarity-Reversed Rhetorical Questions: Possible Worlds as Echoed Source
5.5 Conclusion

CHAPTER 6 Rhetorical Questions in Japanese
6.1 Sentence-Final Expressions (SFEs) in Japanese
6.2 Conclusion

CHAPTER 7 SFEs in Japanese Interrogatives 1: The Case of To Iu No Ka
7.1 Ka As Interpretive Use Marker
7.2 The Meaning of To Iu No (Desu) Ka
7.2.1 To Iu/Tte Iu in Declarative Utterances
7.2.2 The Meaning of Tte
7.3 Tte and Tte-Iu No (Desu) Ka in Interrogative Utterances
7.4 Does Tte Alone Function as an Echoic Reformulation Marker?
7.5 Strong and Weak Implicatures
7.6 To Iu/Tte Iu in Wh-Interrogatives
7.7 Conclusion

CHAPTER 8 SFEs in Japanese Interrogatives 2: The Case of Mono Ka
8.1 The Mono Da Construction
8.1.1 Background Studies
8.1.2 Deontic and Epistemic Interpretations of Mono Da
8.1.3 Explicit and Implicit Meanings of Mono Da
8.2 The Mono Ka Construction in Interrogatives
8.2.1 Mono in the Mono Ka Construction
8.2.2 Mono Ka in Wh-Interrogatives
8.2.3 Mono Ka in Exclamatives
8.3 Degrees of Dissociation and Speaker Emotion
8.4 Conclusion

Afterword
References

【著者紹介】

後藤リサ（ごとうりさ、Goto Risa）
関西外国語大学英語国際学部専任講師。
［主な著書・論文］
・“Relevance Theoretic Analysis of the Properties and Understanding Process of Rhetorical Questions,” Annual reports of Graduate School of Humanities and Science (Nara Women’s University) 26, (2011)
・「アイロニーを伴う修辞疑問文発話の関連性理論による分析」『ことばを見つめて―内田聖二教授退職記念論文集―』（英宝社、2012）
・「疑問文発話解釈における話者態度の高次のメタ表示」『関西外国語大学研究論集』第100号


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