Questioning and answering practices across contexts and cultures /

"This book showcases innovative research about the multi-functional and dynamic interrelatedness of questioning and answering practices in institution- and culture-specific interactions ranging from under-explored to extensively researched ones: South-Korean talk shows, Japanese interviews, Chi...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Ilie, Cornelia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 323.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Questions we (inter)act with : interrelatedness of questions and answers in discourse / Cornelia Ilie
  • Evasive answers vs. aggressive questions : parliamentary confrontational practices in Prime Minister's questions / Cornelia Ilie
  • Japanese politicians' questions in parliament : being polite yet forceful? / Lidia Tanaka
  • Pragmatic functions of question-answer sequences in Italian legal examinations and TV interviews with politicians / Augusto Gnisci
  • "You were resisting the whole time!" Assumption of guilt in police-civilian question-response interactions / L. Guditus Casey
  • Constructing interrupting inquiries as cooperative interactions : question-response-hai 'yes' sequences in Japanese interviews / Momoko Nakamura
  • Formulation questions and responses in Korean TV talk show interactions / Kyu-hyun Kim and Kyung-hee Suh
  • Devices of alignment : suoyi- and danshi-prefaced questions in Mandarin Chinese TV news interviews / Hua Gao
  • "Doing being collegial" Participants' positioning work in Q&A sessions" / Elizabeth Reddington, Ignasi Clemente, Hansun Zhang Waring and Di Yu
  • Question-answer sequences in Japanese first encounters : wishing to get to know new persons vs. dispreferred behavior of asking questions / Yuka Shigemitsu.