Beyond Rhetorical Questions
Assertive questions in everyday interaction
1st Edition
Published on 26. May 2005
X, 183 pages
978-90-272-9450-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends arguing over the phone, parents disciplining children, news interviews, and second language writing conferences. The questions are used across these widely different contexts to perform a number of related social actions such as accusations, challenges to prior turns, and complaints. Those used in institution settings, such as teacher-student conferences, orient to institutional norms and roles and can help accomplish institutional goals, e.g., eliciting student error correction. Both the interactional context in which these questions are embedded and the known epistemic authority of the questioner play a role in our understanding of these questions, i.e., what social actions the question is accomplishing in a particular interaction.
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- Beyond Rhetorical Questions
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Interrogatives and "asking questions"
- 1.2 Conversation Analysis methodology
- 1.3 Organization of contents
- 2. Yes/no reversed polarity questions
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Negative yes/no RPQs used as accusations
- 2.3 Affirmative yes/no RPQs used to challenge recipients
- 2.4 Challenges to non-present parties
- 2.5 Repair initiations used as pre-disagreements
- 2.6 Summary and discussion
- 3. Wh- reversed polarity questions
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Wh-questions used to challenge co-present parties
- 3.3 Wh-questions used to challenge non-present parties
- 3.4 Wh-questions used as complaints
- 3.5 Wh-question challenges in institutional talk
- 3.6 Misunderstanding the sequential implicativeness of wh-questions
- 3.7 Summary of analysis
- 3.8 Canonical wh-question challenges
- 3.9 Interpretation of wh-question RPQs
- 4. Yes/no reversed polarity questions used in pedagogically specific practices
- 1. Introduction
- 2. RPQs used as criticisms of student text
- 3. RPQs used as hints in grammar correction sequences
- 5. Alternative question error correction sequences
- 5.1 Other-initiated (OI) repair
- 5.2 Actions performed by OI repairs that repeat the trouble source
- 5.3 Actions performed by alternative question repairs
- 5.4 Alternative question error corrections in pedagogy
- 5.5 Recognizing the actions performed by alternative question repairs
- 5.6 Summary and discussion
- 6. Conclusion
- 6.1 Summary of findings
- 6.2 Using questions rather than statements
- 6.3 Final note
- Appendix. Transcription symbols
- Notes
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
- The series Studies in Discourse and Grammar
