Whichis your book?
What is your name?
see also wh-questioninterrogative sentencen
a sentence which is in the form of a question. For example:
Did you open the window?
Interrogative sentences do not, however, always have the function of a
question. For example:
Could you shut the window?
may be a request for someone to shut the window and not a question about
whether or not the person is able to do so.
see also declarative sentence, imperative sentence
intertextualityn
the factors that make the use of one text depend on knowledge of other
texts. In interpreting a text a reader is said to make connections between the
text and other texts he or she has encountered. Thus for example, in read-
ing a story a reader can only make sense of it by reference to other stories
previously encountered. The meaning a person derives from a text is thus
said to result from the interaction between the readers’ knowledge of the
social and literary conventions associated with the text and the genre to
which it belongs, the content of the text itself, and its relationship with
other texts.
interval scalen
see scale
interviewn
a conversation between an investigator and an individual or a group of
individuals in order to gather information. Interviews are used to gather
data for linguistic analysis (see fieldwork) and may be used in needs
analysis.
see depth interview, focused interview, guided interview, inter-
view guide, structured interview, unstructured interview
interview guiden
a list of topics used by an interviewer during an interview. An interview
guide helps the interviewer make sure that the important topics have been
covered during the interview, but it differs from an interview schedule (see
guided interview) in that it contains only the topics to be asked about and
not the actual questions that will be asked.
interrogative sentence