O implikaturach konwersacyjnych pytań

The article explores the connection between questions and conversational implicatures. Its author introduces a theoretical argument that questions contain such implicatures. Also, extensive empirical material is present which confirms the thesis that questions entail conversational implicatures. Moreover, the article discusses in this context a class of utterances used to simultaneously express an epistemic stance toward a state of affairs stated in a subordinate clause and receive a response from an interlocutor, as in the following example: Don’t you think Peter should be going home now?