Enfield2010
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Enfield2010 |
| Author(s) | N.J. Enfield, Tanya Stivers, Stephen C. Levinson |
| Title | Question–response sequences in conversation across ten languages: An introduction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, question-response, questions, multi-language |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 42 |
| Number | 10 |
| Pages | 2615–2619 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.04.001 |
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Abstract
Questions have played a central role in thought about language. In the philosophy of language, the contrast with declaratives has been a lever with which to examine theories of the match between language and the world, a way of exploring presupposition and information structure, and a route into the theory of speech acts. In anthropology, the special social role of questions has long been noted, on the one hand displaying the ignorance appropriate to lower status, on the other hand the power of coercion (Goody, 1978). In grammar, interrogatives are often marked sentence types, and the operations converting declaratives to interrogatives have proved to be an enlightening window on the underlying syntactic machinery of language in general. Questions have also been held to be a crucial locus where intonation, grammar and function coalesce. In pragmatics, the tie between question and answer has been a prototype for larger units in the structure of verbal interaction, and specifically in the theory of adjacency pairs.
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