A speaker's use of a sentence does more than contribute content to a conversation. It also expresses the speaker's attitude. This essay is about which attitude or attitudes are expressed by using an interrogative sentence to ask a question. With reference to eight lines of data about how questions are circulated in conversation, it is argued that a desire to know the question's answer(s) is expressed.

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询问表达了想要知道的愿望

说话者对句子的使用不仅仅是为对话提供内容。也表达了说话者的态度。本文探讨的是用疑问句提出问题来表达哪种态度。参考关于问题在对话中如何传播的八行数据，有人认为表达了想知道问题答案的愿望。