Seuren-Huiskes2017
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Seuren-Huiskes2017 |
| Author(s) | Lucas M. Seuren, Mike Huiskes |
| Title | Confirmation or Elaboration: What Do Yes/No Declaratives Want?, |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Confirmation requests, Elaboration, Dutch |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 50 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 188-205 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/08351813.2017.1301307 |
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Abstract
Recent analyses have argued that when requests for confirmation are implemented with declarative word order, they are closure-implicative due to the relatively knowing stance indexed with the declarative. This article demonstrates, however, that in some cases participants show an orientation to both confirmation and elaboration as a relevant next action. By comparing requests for confirmation that are closure-implicative to those that are expansion-implicative, it is argued that in addition to epistemic stance, participants also orient to the lexical design features and sequential placement of these declarative yes/no-type initiating actions to determine the relevant type of response. Data are in Dutch with English translations.
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