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|Author(s)=Jack Sidnell;
 
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|Title=The design and positioning of questions in inquiry testimony
 
|Title=The design and positioning of questions in inquiry testimony
|Editor(s)=Alice Freed; Susan Ehrlich;
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|Editor(s)=Alice F. Freed; Susan Ehrlich;
 
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Questioning
 
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Questioning
 
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|Booktitle=Why Do You Ask? The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse
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|Booktitle=“Why Do You Ask?”: The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse
 
|Pages=20–41
 
|Pages=20–41
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|URL=https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306897.001.0001/acprof-9780195306897-chapter-2
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|DOI=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306897.003.0002
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|Abstract=This chapter, written by Jack Sidnell, considers question‐answer sequences in public inquiries, a context in which lawyers are mandated to ask questions and witnesses to answer them. Sidnell shows that while many of the lawyers' turns‐at‐talk do not “do questioning” in any straightforward way, they are nonetheless allowed in these contexts. Conversely, some of the lawyers' turns that are designed as questions (i.e., as interrogatives) are negatively sanctioned as not being questions. Sidnell concludes that it is not question design alone that determines whether turns count as questions; the sequential positioning of turns also plays a role. In particular, Sidnell shows that the negatively sanctioned interrogatives are in fact understood as third‐position comments rather than the first‐position utterances of question‐answer adjacency pairs.
 
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Sidnell2009c
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Sidnell2009c
Author(s) Jack Sidnell
Title The design and positioning of questions in inquiry testimony
Editor(s) Alice F. Freed, Susan Ehrlich
Tag(s) EMCA, Questioning
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year 2009
Language English
City Oxford
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Pages 20–41
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DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306897.003.0002
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Howpublished
Book title “Why Do You Ask?”: The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse
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Abstract

This chapter, written by Jack Sidnell, considers question‐answer sequences in public inquiries, a context in which lawyers are mandated to ask questions and witnesses to answer them. Sidnell shows that while many of the lawyers' turns‐at‐talk do not “do questioning” in any straightforward way, they are nonetheless allowed in these contexts. Conversely, some of the lawyers' turns that are designed as questions (i.e., as interrogatives) are negatively sanctioned as not being questions. Sidnell concludes that it is not question design alone that determines whether turns count as questions; the sequential positioning of turns also plays a role. In particular, Sidnell shows that the negatively sanctioned interrogatives are in fact understood as third‐position comments rather than the first‐position utterances of question‐answer adjacency pairs.

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