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The act of questioning is the primary speech interaction between an
institutional speaker and someone outside the institution. These
roles dictate their language practices. "Why Do You Ask?" is the
first collected volume to focus solely on the question/answer
process, drawing on a range of methodological approaches like
Conversational Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Discursive Psychology,
and Sociolinguistics-and using as data not just medical, legal, and
educational environments, but also less-studied institutions like
telephone call centers, broadcast journalism (i.e. talk show
interviews), academia, and telemarketing.
An international roster of well-known contributors addresses such
issues as: the relationship between the syntax of the question and
its discourse function; the kind of institutional work that
questions perform; the degree to which the questioner can control
the direction of the conversation; and how questions are used to
repackage responses, to construct meaning, and to serve the
institutional goals of speakers.
Why Do You Ask? will appeal to linguists and others interested in
institutional discourse, as well as those interested in the
grammatical/pragmatic nature of questions.
The act of questioning is the primary speech interaction between an
institutional speaker and someone outside the institution. These
roles dictate their language practices. "Why Do You Ask?" is the
first collected volume to focus solely on the question/answer
process, drawing on a range of methodological approaches like
Conversational Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Discursive Psychology,
and Sociolinguistics-and using as data not just medical, legal, and
educational environments, but also less-studied institutions like
telephone call centers, broadcast journalism (i.e. talk show
interviews), academia, and telemarketing.
An international roster of well-known contributors addresses such
issues as: the relationship between the syntax of the question and
its discourse function; the kind of institutional work that
questions perform; the degree to which the questioner can control
the direction of the conversation; and how questions are used to
repackage responses, to construct meaning, and to serve the
institutional goals of speakers.
Why Do You Ask? will appeal to linguists and others interested in
institutional discourse, as well as those interested in the
grammatical/pragmatic nature of questions.
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