Varieties of Questions in English Conversation
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 1993
X, 252 pages
978-90-272-8585-0 (ISBN)
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This book examines relations which hold between morphosyntactic form and communicative function in discourse by examining form-function correlations of noninterrogative questions in ordinary English conversation. So-called nontypical declarative and nonclausal questions are identified functionally. The role morphosyntax plays in the production and interpretation of these forms as doing questioning is then considered. Speakers are shown to use specific patterns of morphosyntactic marking to enable recipients to interpret noninterrogatives as functional questions. Explanations for morphosyntactic patterns found in the data are stated in terms of discourse use.
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Elizabeth G. Weber
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Content
- 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
