Questions : formal, functional and interactional perspectives /
edited by Jan P. de Ruiter, Bielefeld University.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012, ©2012.
- xi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Language culture and cognition ; 12 .
- Language, culture, and cognition ; 12. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: questions are what they do / Questions: Interplay Between Form and Function: . 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 / Jan P. de Ruiter -- Stephen C. Levinson; Jerry R. Hobbs; Tanya Stivers and Frederico Rossano; Herbert H. Clark -- Jerry Sadock; Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen; Aoju Chen -- Stanka A. Fitneva; John Heritage and Geoffrey Raymond; N.J. Enfield, Penelope Brown and J.P. de Ruiter; Mia Halonen and Marja-Leena Sorjonen. 1. Part I. 2 3. 4. 5. Part II. 6. 7. 8. Part III. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"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"--
9780521762670 (hardback) 0521762677 (hardback)
2012016899
Grammar, Comparative and general--Interrogative.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Intonation (Phonetics)
P299 I57 / Q47 2012
415
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: questions are what they do / Questions: Interplay Between Form and Function: . 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 / Jan P. de Ruiter -- Stephen C. Levinson; Jerry R. Hobbs; Tanya Stivers and Frederico Rossano; Herbert H. Clark -- Jerry Sadock; Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen; Aoju Chen -- Stanka A. Fitneva; John Heritage and Geoffrey Raymond; N.J. Enfield, Penelope Brown and J.P. de Ruiter; Mia Halonen and Marja-Leena Sorjonen. 1. Part I. 2 3. 4. 5. Part II. 6. 7. 8. Part III. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"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"--
9780521762670 (hardback) 0521762677 (hardback)
2012016899
Grammar, Comparative and general--Interrogative.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Intonation (Phonetics)
P299 I57 / Q47 2012
415
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