Pomerantz2017

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Pomerantz2017
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Pomerantz2017
Author(s) Anita Pomerantz
Title Inferring the purpose of a prior query and responding accordingly
Editor(s) Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner, John Heritage
Tag(s) EMCA, conversation analysis, reasoning, bases of inferences, responses, questions, participants' analysis, purpose of question, Allusion
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Year 2017
Language English
City Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Pages 61–76
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.273.04pom
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Howpublished
Book title Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff
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Abstract

The paper analyzes how recipients infer the purpose of a prior query. While such inferences are not directly observable, analyzing responses to queries sheds light on ways in which recipients likely understood them. The paper identifies three types of sequences in which recipients respond to the inferred purpose of the prior query. To infer a purpose of a query, recipients draw on the form of the query, the immediately prior interaction, and assumedly shared knowledge about the current situation. It concludes with a discussion of the relationship between inferring the purpose of a prior query and participants’ pervasively addressing the question ‘why that now’.

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