Approaches to the notion "interrogation"

The article is focused on the problem of interrogation in different fields of science. The author presents several interpretations of the notion “interrogation” in logics, philosophy, and linguistics. The history of the notion and its philosophical meaning in science is also revealed in the article. Several classifications of questions are analyzed by the author. The author studies functions of interrogation in the media, official texts, scientific texts and fiction and assumes that specificity of interrogation depends on a type of a text under consideration. Interrogation is presented as a complex phenomenon which is interpreted generally as a mental activity aimed at obtaining knew information.