Sentence examples for assertive questions from inspiring English sources

This paper considers the use of assertive questions – utterances which have the form of questions, but are heard as assertions – in conversation and narrative in Máíh ĩki (Tukanoan, Peru).

Speakers employ assertive questions as the conventional means for several grammatical and interactional ends.

Crucially, the facework properties of assertive questions arise from their preference structure, not from their syntax.

Máíh ĩki assertive questions are syntactically identical to polar questions, but are pragmatically treated as declaratives of the opposite polarity.

I show that the class of actions done by assertive questions in this language is uniquely characterized by the presence of a threat to the speaker's positive face.

The city should be more assertive in confronting the questions of racism stirred by the bomb, Mr. Bush said.

His advice to returnees: don't be too assertive or ask too many questions.

White's opinion in Wednesday's ruling was assertive and bold, calling into question every law that discriminates against LGBT people.

The reason people came away with the impression that I was assertive was that I asked tough questions.

If only I had been more assertive with my OB, asked more questions, demanded proof of Stacy's growth.

With typical brio, Larraín opens "Jackie" with an assertive closeup of the woman in question looking beyond distraught and walking toward the camera with the intentionally dissonant sounds of Mica Levy's unsettling score echoing behind her.