Rhetorical questions or rhetorical uses of questions? Džemal Špago


how can you expect hungry men to raise production?



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Rhetorical questions or rhetorical uses of questio

 how can you expect hungry men to raise production?
(Stoppard, 
Squaring the Circle
, 244) 
As we can see in the above example, the concept of 
hungry workers
is combined 
with the concept of 
raising production
. Since these concepts seem contradictory, this 
automatically leads the addressee to interpret the question as rhetorical, i.e. as an 
indirect statement (
It is impossible for hungry workers to raise production.
).
Similarly, rhetorical interpretation of the questions in the following examples is 
ensured by juxtaposing mutually incompatible concepts:
(29) 
DAVIES: 
How can I cut a loaf of bread without no knife?
(Pinter, 
The Caretaker
, 58) 
(30) 
ALFIERI: 
What are you going to do? 
EDDIE: 
What can I do? I'm a patsy,
 what can a patsy do?
I worked like a dog 
twenty years so a punk could have her, so that's what I done.
(...) 


(Miller, 
A View from the Bridge
, 342-343) 
Any competent speaker knows that in order to cut bread you need a knife, or 
that a patsy is someone who is incapable of doing much. While it would still be 
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