Schegloff2009
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Schegloff2009 |
| Author(s) | Emanuel A. Schegloff, Gene H. Lerner |
| Title | Beginning to respond: Well-prefaced responses to Wh-questions |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Responding, Well-prefaced, Questioning |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2009 |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 42 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 91–115 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/08351810902864511 |
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Abstract
This article reports on the occurrence of well within an analytically delimited sequential environment: turn-initial position in the second pair-part position of adjacency pair sequences launched by a wh-question. We show that these well-prefaces operate as general alerts that indicate nonstraightforwardness in responding, and we compare this form of alert to others that operate in talk-in-interaction. We conclude by addressing the relationship of answering to responding, and by considering the relationship of well-prefacing to preference organization.
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