Koshik2017

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Koshik2017
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Koshik2017
Author(s) Irene Koshik
Title Responses to Wh-question challenges
Editor(s) Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner, John Heritage
Tag(s) EMCA, responses to challenges, conversation analysis, reversed polarity questions, wh-questions
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Year 2017
Language English
City Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Pages 81–103
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.273.05kos
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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

This chapter builds on my previous studies of wh-questions that convey reversed polarity assertions, for example, “Whenhave I.” used to convey “I never have” (Koshik 2003;2005). These questions challenge the grounds for a prior claim or action, suggesting that there is no basis for that claim or action and the question is therefore unanswerable. This chapter focuses on responses to these challenges. At times questioners leave no sequentially appropriate space for a response. However, when recipients do respond, responses that reject the challenge provide grammatically type-conforming answers to the questions, treating the questions as answerable. Responses that align with the challenge either treat the question as unanswerable or they accept or agree with the assertion conveyed by the challenge.

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