Hayashi-Kushida2013

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Hayashi-Kushida2013
BibType ARTICLE
Key Hayashi-Kushida2013
Author(s) Makoto Hayashi, Shuya Kushida
Title Responding with resistance to wh-questions in Japanese talk-in-interaction
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Tag(s) EMCA, Questions, Japanese, Response
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Year 2013
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 46
Number 3
Pages 231–255
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DOI 10.1080/08351813.2013.810407
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Abstract

Respondents to questions have various ways to display their stance toward the question addressed to them. This article examines the practice of deploying the negative response token iya in turn-initial position in response to wh-questions in Japanese talk-in-interaction. We show that iya-prefacing serves as an alert to the questioner that the respondent finds some aspect of the preceding question problematic. Our findings contribute to a growing body of conversation analytic research on various turn-constructional practices that are used to problematize, resist, or sidestep the constraints imposed by preceding questions across different settings and in different languages.

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