Question-answer coherence is not by itself evidence that an utterance addresses a question: rhetorical questions and expressive reactions can be coherent responses while not asserting a proposition that addresses the question.
Evidence (3)
In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Discourse behavior: denials, question-addressing, and embedding
there are various ways to react to questions that would likely be judged coherent/felicitous by many speakers that do not actually address the question
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-3-p5
In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Discourse behavior: denials, question-addressing, and embedding
there are various ways to react to questions that would likely be judged coherent/felicitous by many speakers that do not actually address the question
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-3-p5
In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Discourse behavior: denials, question-addressing, and embedding
there are various ways to react to questions that would likely be judged coherent/felicitous by many speakers that do not actually address the question
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-3-p5
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