Seuren-Huiskes2017
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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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