
Varieties of Questions in English Conversation
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- VARIETIES OF QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH CONVERSATION
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The Problem: The Relationship between Discourse and Grammar
- 1.1. The Linguistic Problem
- 1.2. Assumptions about the Relationship between Linguistic Form and Communicative Meaning
- 1.3. Goals
- 1.4. Morphosyntactic Form
- 1.5. Intonation
- 1.6. Approaches to Language in its Social Context
- 1.6.1. Emotive Theory of Ethics
- 1.6.2. Speech Act Theory
- 1.6.3. Discourse Analysis
- 1.6.4. Conversation Analysis
- 1.6.5. Other Disciplines
- 1.7. Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Analytical Procedures and Principles
- 2.1. General Procedures
- 2.1.1. The Database
- 2.1.2. Reasons for Studying Utterances Doing Questioning
- 2.1.3. Selectional Criteria for Utterances Doing Questioning
- 2.2. Organization of the Data
- 2.2.1. Morphosyntax
- 2.2.2. Intonation
- 2.2.3. Communicative Functions
- 2.3. Analytical Procedures
- 2.4. Organization of Conversation
- 2.4.1. Sequence Structure
- 2.4.2. Turn- Taking Procedures
- 2.4.3. Repair Phenomena
- 2.4.4. Preference Structure
- 2.5. Summary
- Chapter 3. Methodology
- 3.1. Data
- 3.1.1. Conversations
- 3.1.2. Transcription Notation
- 3.2. Coding Procedures
- 3.3. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Declarative Questions: Morphosyntactic Patterns
- 4.1. The Problem of Declarative Questions
- 4.2. Data
- 4.3. Morphosyntactic Patterns of Declarative Questions
- 4.3.1. Declarative Questions with No Associated Marker
- 4.3.2. Marked Declarative Questions
- 4.4. The Interpretation of Declarative Questions with No Associated Marker
- 4.4.1. Intonation and Declarative Questions with No Associated Marker
- 4.4.2. Gesture and Declarative Questions with No Associated Marker
- 4.4.3. Accessibility of Information and Declarative Questions with No Associated Marker
- 4.5. Next-Turn Repair Initiators and Declarative Questions with No Associated Marker
- 4.6. Distributive Facts
- 4.6.1. Marked Declarative Questions
- 4.6.2. Declarative Questions with No Associated Lexical or Morphosyntactic Marker
- 4.7. Summary of Distributive Facts
- Chapter 5. Declarative Questions: Function
- 5.1. Multiple Functions of Declarative Questions
- 5.2. Functional Distribution of Declarative Questions
- 5.3. Next-Turn Repair Initiators (NTRI's)
- 5.4. Requests for Confirmation
- 5.4.1. Marked Requests for Confirmation in terms of A -events and B-events
- 5.4.2. Requests for Confirmation Which Have No Associated Marker
- 5.5. Declarative Questions Not Interpretable in Terms of A-Events and B-Events
- 5.5.1. Topic/Sequence Solicitations
- 5.5.2. Request for a Reason
- 5.5.3. Uptakes
- 5.5.4. Knowledge Gaps
- 5.5.5. Candidate Understandings
- 5.5.6. Arrangements
- 5.5.7. Narrator Checks
- 5.5.8. Criticism
- 5.5.9. TopicContinuation
- 5.5.10. Reported Questions
- 5.6. You're Kidding
- 5.7. Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Nonclausal Questions: Morphosyntactic Patterns
- 6.1. The Problem of Nonclausal Questions
- 6.2. Data
- 6.3. Morphosyntactic Patterns of Nonclausal Questions
- 6.3.1. Nonclausal Questions with No Associated Marker
- 6.3.2. Marked Nonclausal Questions
- 6.4. The Interpretation of Nonclausal Questions with No Associated Marker
- 6.4.1. Next- Turn Repair Initiators and Nonclausal Questions
- 6.4.2. A ccessibility of Information and Nonclausal Questions
- 6.5. Distributive Facts
- 6.5.1. Marked Nonclausal Questions
- 6.5.2. Nonclausal Questions with No Associated Marker
- 6.6. Summary of Distributive Facts
- Chapter 7. Nonclausal Questions: Function
- 7.1. Multiple Functions of Nonclausal Questions
- 7.2. Functional Distribution of Nonclausal Questions
- 7.3. Next-Turn Repair Initiators (NTRI's)
- 7.4. NTRI's and Preference Structure
- 7.5. Other Functions of NTRI's
- 7.6. Candidate Solutions to Same-Turn Repairs
- 7.7. Functions of Nonclausal Questions not Implicated in Repair
- 7.7.1 Topic/Sequence Solicitations
- 7.7.2. Preferred Responses to Pre-Announcements
- 7.7.3. Backdowns
- 7.7.4. Candidate Understandings
- 7.7.5. Try Questions
- 7.7.6. Other Functions
- 7.8. News Receipts
- 7.9. Conclusion
- Chapter 8. The Many-to-Many Relations of Lexical and Morphosyntactic Markers of Question Function
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Lexical and Morphosyntactic Markers
- 8.3. Misinterpretations
- 8.4. Distribution of Markers in Declarative Statements
- 8.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Conclusions
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Goal 1
- 9.3. Goal 2
- 9.4. Functional Explanations of Morphosyntactic Patterns
- 9.4.1. Declarative Questions
- 9.4.2. Nonclausal Questions
- 9.5. Universals of Question Function
- 9.5.1. Question Marking Strategies
- 9.5.2. Implication for Typological Studies
- 9.6. Typical Questions
- 9.7. Implications for Other Areas of Language Study
- 9.7.1. Descriptive Linguistics
- 9.7.2. Speech Act Theory
- 9.7.3. Formal Linguistics
- 9.7.4. Cognitive Science
- Notes
- Appendix
- References
- Index
- The series Studies in Discourse and Grammar
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