Title: Beginning to Respond:<i>Well</i>-Prefaced Responses to<i>Wh</i>-Questions
Abstract: This article reports on the occurrence of well within an analytically delimited sequential environment: turn-initial position in the second pair-part position of adjacency pair sequences launched by a wh-question. We show that these well-prefaces operate as general alerts that indicate nonstraightforwardness in responding, and we compare this form of alert to others that operate in talk-in-interaction. We conclude by addressing the relationship of answering to responding, and by considering the relationship of well-prefacing to preference organization.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-05-14
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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