Questions : formal, functional and interactional perspectives

"The view that questions are 'requests for missing information' is too simple when language use is considered. Formally, utterances are questions when they are syntactically marked as such, or by prosodic marking. Functionally, questions request that certain information is made availa...

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Main Author: Ruiter, Jan-Peter de , 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , c2012
Series:Language, culture and cognition 12
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245 0 0 |a Questions :   |b formal, functional and interactional perspectives   |c edited by Jan P. de Ruiter 
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300 |a xi, 256 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 24 cm. 
490 1 |a Language, culture and cognition   |v 12 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction : questions are what they do -- 2. Interrogative intimations : on a possible social economics of interrogatives -- 3. Structures and questions in decision-making dialogues -- 4. Mobilising response in interaction: a compositional view of questions -- 5. Wordless questions, wordless answers -- 6. Formal features of questions -- 7. Some truths and untruths about final intonation in conversational questions -- 8. Shaping the intonation of WH-questions: information structure and beyond -- 9. Beyond answers: questions and children's learning -- 10. Navigating epistemic landscapes : acquiescence, agency and resistance in responses to polar questions -- 11. Epistemic dimensions of polar questions : sentence-final particles in comparative perspectiv -- 12. Multifunctionality of interrogatives: asking reasons for and wondering about an action as overdone 
520 |a "The view that questions are 'requests for missing information' is too simple when language use is considered. Formally, utterances are questions when they are syntactically marked as such, or by prosodic marking. Functionally, questions request that certain information is made available in the next conversational turn. But functional and formal questionhood are independent: what is formally a question can be functionally something else, for instance, a statement, a complaint or a request. Conversely, what is functionally a question is often expressed as a statement. Also, verbal signals such as eye-gaze, head-nods or even practical actions can serve information-seeking functions that are very similar to the function of linguistic questions. With original cross-cultural and multidisciplinary contributions from linguists, anthropologists, psychologists and conversationanalysts, this book asks what questions do and how a question can shape the answer it evokes"-- Provided by publisher 
650 0 |a Grammar, Comparative and general   |x Interrogative 
650 0 |a Grammar, Comparative and general   |x Syntax 
650 0 |a Grammar, Comparative and general   |x Word order 
650 0 |a Intonation (Phonetics) 
700 1 |a Ruiter, Jan-Peter de ,   |d 1964- ,   |e author 
999 |a 1000157881   |b Book   |c OPEN SHELF (30 DAYS)   |e Gong Badak Campus