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Questions: Formal, Functional and Interactional Perspectives

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    9780521762670

  • ISBN10:

    0521762677

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-09-24
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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 conversation analysts, this book asks what questions do and how a question can shape the answer it evokes.

Table of Contents

Questions: Interplay between Form and Function
Introduction: questions are what they do
Interrogative intimations: on a possible social economics of interrogatives
Structures and questions in decision-making dialogues
Mobilising response in interaction: a compositional view of questions
Wordless questions, wordless answers
The Structure and Prosody of Questions
Formal features of questions
Some truths and untruths about final intonation in conversational questions
Shaping the intonation of WH-questions: information structure and beyond
Questions and Stance
Beyond answers: questions and children's learning
Navigating epistemic landscapes: acquiescence, agency and resistance in responses to polar questions
Epistemic dimensions of polar questions: sentence-final particles in comparative perspective
Multifunctionality of interrogatives: asking reasons for and wondering about an action as overdone
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