Questions: Formal, Functional and Interactional Perspectives
by Edited by Jan P. de RuiterFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-09-24
Publisher(s): 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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