Hakulinen2001

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Hakulinen2001
BibType ARTICLE
Key Hakulinen2001
Author(s) Auli Hakulinen
Title Minimal and non-minimal answers to yes-no questions
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Tag(s) EMCA, IL, Answer, Yes-no question, Conversation Analysis, Typology, Grammar and context
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Year 2001
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Journal Pragmatics
Volume 11
Number 1
Pages 1–15
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DOI 10.1075/prag.11.1.01hak
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Abstract

Against the theoretical and methodological background of conversation analysis (CA), the author addresses the issue of the contextual conditions for a specific type of grammatical phenomenon: answers to yes-no questions. She distinguishes five kinds of answers: two minimal ones, one next to minimal one, and two sentential types of answers. Minimal and non-minimal types of answers are shown to be doing different kinds of work in an interaction, full sentence answers addressing a wider range of features oriented to in the context either by the questioner or in the interpretation. The different types are placed along a confirmation-negation continuum.

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