Asking Expresses a Desire to Know
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4352076 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Van Elswyk (0000-0001-5618-4652, Northwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 254-267 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqad119 |
| OpenAlex | W4389882994 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
A speaker's use of a sentence does more than contribute content to a conversation. It also expresses the speaker's attitude. This essay is about which attitude or attitudes are expressed by using an interrogative sentence to ask a question. With reference to eight lines of data about how questions are circulated in conversation, it is argued that a desire to know the question's answer(s) is expressed
Ask price · Conversation · Interrogative · Linguistics · Sentence · Communication · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Linguistic communication and speech acts
Teleological reasoning in infancy
From simple desires to ordinary beliefs
Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor's reach
Non-Intrusive Questions as a Special Type of Non-Canonical Questions
Assertion remains strong
Valuable ignorance
How do we interpret questions? Simplified representations of knowledge guide humans' interpretation of information requests
Two-year-old children differentiate test questions from genuine questions
On believing and hoping whether
Pointing as Epistemic Request
Question‐directed Attitudes
Hedging and the ignorance norm on inquiry
Curiosity was Framed
Early reasoning about desires
One Kind of Asking
Dialogue Games
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |