Can rhetorical questions function as retorts? Is the Pope Catholic?

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 433-460

  Schaffer, Deborah ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY BILLINGS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation; Humor; Implicature; Question types; Retorts; Rhetorical questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 12444338967     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2003.12.007     Document Type: Article

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