{"id":16922,"date":"2025-02-24T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16922"},"modified":"2025-02-26T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:22:00","slug":"colloquium-02-28-michela-ippolito-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/02\/24\/colloquium-02-28-michela-ippolito-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium 02\/28 \u0097 Michela Ippolito (Toronto)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/individual.utoronto.ca\/ippolito\/Home.htm\">Michela Ippolito<\/a> (University of Toronto)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> What makes rhetorical questions rhetorical<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> Friday 02\/28 at 3:30-5pm <br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-141<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The question of what is special about rhetorical questions has been subject to debate for quite some time. One prominent view is that what makes rhetorical questions rhetorical is that they, unlike canonical questions, bear a special relation with the common ground: some theories propose that a rhetorical question is a question whose answer is in the common ground (e.g. Caponigro and Sprouse 2007); some theories propose that a rhetorical question presupposes that its answer is in the common ground (e.g. Biezma and Rawlins 2017); other theories propose a more intricare relation with the common ground (Farkas (2024)). In this talk I discuss some types of rhetorical questions which I argue challenge \u0093common ground\u0094 theories of rhetorical questions and discuss how one might go about developing a different theory of rhetoricity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Michela Ippolito (University of Toronto) Title: What makes rhetorical questions rhetorical Time: Friday 02\/28 at 3:30-5pm Location: 32-141 Abstract: The question of what is special about rhetorical questions has been subject to debate for quite some time. One prominent view is that what makes rhetorical questions rhetorical is that they, unlike canonical questions, bear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16924,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922\/revisions\/16924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}