Pomerantz1988

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Pomerantz1988
BibType ARTICLE
Key Pomerantz1988
Author(s) Anita Pomerantz
Title Offering a candidate answer: An information seeking strategy
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Candidate Answers, Information Seeking
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Year 1988
Language English
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Journal Communication Monographs
Volume 55
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Pages 360-373
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/03637758809376177
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Abstract

Interactants use a variety of strategies to seek information from one another. One strategy involves incorporating a Candidate Answer in a query. In using this strategy, a speaker provides a model of the type of answer that would satisfy his/her purpose‐for‐asking. Supplying a model is useful when a speaker wants to guide, direct, or assist a respondent in providing particular information. In offering a Candidate Answer, a speaker can display having knowledge and familiarity of a circumstance. A Candidate Answer can be read as revealing the speaker's attitude toward, and expectations of, relevant others.

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