Title: Questions: Formal, Functional and Interactional Perspectives
Abstract: 1. Introduction: questions are what they do Jan P. de Ruiter Part I. Questions: Interplay between Form and Function: 2. Interrogative intimations: on a possible social economics of interrogatives Stephen C. Levinson 3. Structures and questions in decision-making dialogues Jerry R. Hobbs 4. Mobilising response in interaction: a compositional view of questions Tanya Stivers and Frederico Rossano 5. Wordless questions, wordless answers Herbert H. Clark Part II. The Structure and Prosody of Questions: 6. Formal features of questions Jerry Sadock 7. Some truths and untruths about final intonation in conversational questions Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen 8. Shaping the intonation of WH-questions: information structure and beyond Aoju Chen Part III. Questions and Stance: 9. Beyond answers: questions and children's learning Stanka A. Fitneva 10. Navigating epistemic landscapes: acquiescence, agency and resistance in responses to polar questions John Heritage and Geoffrey Raymond 11. Epistemic dimensions of polar questions: sentence-final particles in comparative perspective N. J. Enfield, Penelope Brown and Jan P. de Ruiter 12. Multi-functionality of interrogatives: asking reasons for and wondering about an action as overdone Mia Halonen and Marja-Leena Sorjonen.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-03-10
Language: en
Type: book
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