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 available in...

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Weitere Verfasser: Ruiter, Jan P. de 1964- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
Schriftenreihe:Language, culture, and cognition 12
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:"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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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 256 Seiten)
ISBN:9781139045414
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139045414

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