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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012, ©2012.
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| Colección: | Language, culture, and cognition ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 J.P. de Ruiter; 12. Multifunctionality of interrogatives: asking reasons for and wondering about an action as overdone / Mia Halonen and Marja-Leena Sorjonen.