Hennoste-etal2017
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Hennoste-etal2017 |
| Author(s) | Tiit Hennoste, Andriela Rääbis, Kirsi Laanesoo |
| Title | Polar questions, social actions and epistemic stance |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Polar Questions, Epistemic stance, Pragmatic typology |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | STUF - Language Typology and Universals |
| Volume | 70 |
| Number | 3 |
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| URL | Link |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2017-0023 |
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Abstract
This article describes the relationships between epistemic stance, social actions and form variants of polar questions in Estonian institutional information-seeking dialogues and compares the results with ordinary conversation in English, Dutch, and Danish. Estonian and English use a polarized system where the unknowing stance is formulated by particles and/or inversion, and knowing stance by declaratives and sentence-final markers. Dutch and Danish use an asymmetrical system where unknowing stance uses an inversion and knowing stance uses frequently all question formats. Information-seeking dialogues contain a large number of questions used to establish resources necessary to implement the second-pair-part of the adjacency pair in the interaction.
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