The author's judgment is that answering by demonstration is marked and only felicitous when the question is understood relatively loosely, as with the how-question combined with think.
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Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions — Question–answer behavior does not establish assertive identity
answering by demonstration is a marked strategy that addresses the given question in an indirect way.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2001#unit-2-p6
Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions — Question–answer behavior does not establish assertive identity
answering by demonstration is a marked strategy that addresses the given question in an indirect way.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2001#unit-2-p6
Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions — Question–answer behavior does not establish assertive identity
answering by demonstration is a marked strategy that addresses the given question in an indirect way.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2001#unit-2-p6
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