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This study develops solutions to the problem of the linguistic handling of writing from a new perspective arising from the action-oriented nature of writing. The main theory is that writing does not compete with language, but is rather a component of it. The results of the study form a new theory on the relationship between language and writing.

Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Writing --- Chirography --- Handwriting --- Ciphers --- Penmanship --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Pragmatics (language). --- language. --- social actions. --- writing.

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The volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 1 Semantics contains a comprehensive overview of the semantic analysis of questions and their role in structuring discourse, next to a series of in-depth contributions on individual aspects of question meanings. The expert contributions offer novel accounts of semantic phenomena such as negation and biased questions, question embedding, exhaustivity, disjunction in alternative questions, and superlative quantification particles in questions. Some accounts are modelled in the framework of inquisitive semantics, whereas others employ alternative semantics, and yet others point to the discourse-structuring potential of marked questions. All contributions are easily accessible against the background of the general introduction. Together, they give an excellent overview of current trends in question semantics.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Interrogative (Grammar) --- Question (Logic) --- Logic --- Questions and answers (Linguistics) --- Interrogative --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Interrogative --- Interrogative.