Seuren-Huiskes2017

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Seuren-Huiskes2017
BibType ARTICLE
Key Seuren-Huiskes2017
Author(s) Lucas M. Seuren, Mike Huiskes
Title Confirmation or Elaboration: What Do Yes/No Declaratives Want?,
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Tag(s) EMCA, Confirmation requests, Elaboration, Dutch
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Year 2017
Language English
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 50
Number 2
Pages 188-205
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DOI 10.1080/08351813.2017.1301307
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Abstract

Recent analyses have argued that when requests for confirmation are implemented with declarative word order, they are closure-implicative due to the relatively knowing stance indexed with the declarative. This article demonstrates, however, that in some cases participants show an orientation to both confirmation and elaboration as a relevant next action. By comparing requests for confirmation that are closure-implicative to those that are expansion-implicative, it is argued that in addition to epistemic stance, participants also orient to the lexical design features and sequential placement of these declarative yes/no-type initiating actions to determine the relevant type of response. Data are in Dutch with English translations.

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