Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 256 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781139045414
Series Statement:
Language, culture, and cognition 12
Content:
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
Note:
"The origin of this book was the workshop entitled "Questions and their responses", hosted by the Multimodal Interaction Project at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, in March 2006" - aus dem Vorwort
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Questions are what they do
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Interrogative intimations: on a possible social economics of interrogatives
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Structures and questions in decision-making dialogues
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Mobilising response in interaction: a compositional view of questions
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Wordless questions, wordless answers
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Formal features of questions
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Some truths and untruths about final intonation in conversational questions
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Shaping the intonation of WH-questions: information structure and beyond
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Beyond answers: questions and children's learning
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Navigating epistemic landscapes: acquiescence, agency and resistance in responses to polar questions
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Epistemic dimensions of polar questions: sentence-final particles in comparative perspective
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Multifunctionality of interrogatives: asking reasons for and wondering about an action as overdone
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-521-76267-0
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-521-76267-0
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-107-59561-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Grammatik
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Interrogativsatz
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Frage
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139045414
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