Interrogative Mood
Interrogative Mood
An interrogative mood is an epistemic mood that signals that the speaker wishes to elicit information concerning the content of his or her utterance from the addressee .
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Source: Palmer 1986
Palmer, F. R. 1986.Mood and modality. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University.
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Source: Nida 1949
Nida, Eugene A. 1949.Morphology: The descriptive analysis of words. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan.
Broader Terms
Related terms
- RT⇆ Addressee
- RT⇆ Epistemic Modality
- RT⇆ Question
- RT⇆ Utterance
- ExactMatch: https://glossary.sil.org/term/interrogative-mood
