Seuren2018a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Seuren2018a |
| Author(s) | Lucas M. Seuren, Mike Huiskes, Tom Koole |
| Title | Resolving knowledge discrepancies in informing sequences |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, change-of-state, action formation |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Language in Society |
| Volume | 47 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 409–434 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0047404518000362 |
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Abstract
This article investigates a specific practice that recipients in Dutch talk-in-in- teraction use when responding to turns that have as one of their main jobs to inform. By responding to an informing turn with an oh-prefaced nonrepeating response that has yes/no-type interrogative word order, recipients treat that turn as counter to expectation and request both confirmation of the inference formulated in his/her response, as well as reconciliatory information for the two discrepant states of affairs. This practice is compared to similar cases where the nonrepeating response is not oh-prefaced to show that such turns implement different actions. Data are in Dutch with English translations.
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