Steensig-Heinemann2013
| Steensig-Heinemann2013 | |
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Steensig-Heinemann2013 |
| Author(s) | Jakob Steensig, Trine Heinemann |
| Title | ‘When “yes” is not enough – as an answer to a yes/no question |
| Editor(s) | Beatrice Szczepek Reed, Geoffrey Raymond |
| Tag(s) | IL, Answers, Yes/no, Danish, responses, confirmations, elaborations |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2013 |
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| City | Amsterdam / Philadelphia |
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| Pages | 207–242 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/slsi.25.07ste |
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| Howpublished | |
| Book title | Units of Talk – Units of Action |
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Abstract
This article investigates confirming answers to yes/no questions that consist of more than the type-conforming ‘yes’ token. The study is based on 160 cases of question-answer sequences with confirming answers, taken from a corpus of Danish interactions. The authors claim that certain actions, which are carried out as yes/no questions, demand a response unit that consists of ‘yes’ plus an elaboration. The actions that have this far-reaching projection are: (1) expansion-eliciting questions, (2) knowledge discrepancy questions, and (3) specification requests. The authors found no simple relationship between syntax and action. Some of the actions that demand more than a ‘yes’ can be carried out with both interrogative and declarative syntax, whereas others are done only interrogatively.
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