Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Introduction / Malte Zimmermann , Klaus von Heusinger and Edgar Onea -- Focus, Questions and Givenness / Daniel Büring -- The Scalar Particle har’i in Ngamo (West Chadic) / Mira Grubic -- Question-Answer Pairs in Sign Languages / Annika Herrmann , Sina Proske and Elisabeth Volk -- Inferring Meaning from Indirect Answers to Polar Questions: the Contribution of the Rise-Fall-Rise Contour / Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Judith Tonhauser -- Constructing QUD Trees / Arndt Riester -- Underneath Rhetorical Relations: the Case of Result / Edgar Onea -- Two Alternatives for Disjunction: an Inquisitive Reconciliation / Floris Roelofsen -- Back Matter -- Index.

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The volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 2 Pragmatics collects original research on the role of questions in understanding text structure and discourse pragmatics. The in-depth studies discuss the effects of focus, questions and givenness in unalternative semantics, as well as the role of scalar particles, question-answer pairs and prosody from the perspective of Questions under Discussion. Two contributions compare the discourse-structuring potential of Questions under Discussion and rhetorical relations, whereas another adds a perspective from inquisitive semantics. Some contributions also look at understudied languages. Together, the contributions allow for a better understanding of question-related pragmatic and discourse-semantic phenomena, and they offer new perspectives on the structure of texts and discourses.