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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
c2012
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| Series: | Language, culture and cognition
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Table of Contents:
- 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