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fu a linguist, I have been fascinated for several years now by the pragmatics of questions. I became specially interested in questions during a l inguistics seminar here in Nigeria more than seven years ago. A colleague had, it seemed to me, been having considerable difticulty distinguishing questions clearly from certain other pragmalinguistic phenomena such as what he was call ing 'summons'; so, since I found the intellectual challenge quite interesting, I decided then to clariff the issues involved, within the scientific paradigm in modern linguistics known as performative grammar.2 Now, my objective in this paper is to present an outl ine of my research results in this intellectual f ield of the study of questions. I shall make my presentation essentially through my review of and reaction to Richard L. Den's (1987) "Questioning and informationlibrary science".

Is ‘may i ask you a question?’ a question?