Heritage1994
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Heritage1994 |
| Author(s) | John Heritage, Marja-Leena Sorjonen |
| Title | Constituting and maintaining activities across sequences: and-prefacing as a feature of question design |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Medical EMCA, conversation analysis, institutional interaction, turn design, Questions |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Journal | Language in Society |
| Volume | 23 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 1–29 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0047404500017656 |
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Abstract
The role of the connective and is here considered as a preface to questions in spoken interaction. Using data from informal medical encounters, it is argued that and-prefacing is used to link a question to a preceding question/answer pair or pairs. In such contexts, and-prefacing indicates that the questions it prefaces have a routine or agenda-based character. This in turn can be a resource which invokes and sustains an orientation to an activity or course of action that is implemented through a series of question/answer pairs, but transcends any individual pair. The general characteristics of and-prefaced questions are contrasted with “contingent” or “follow-up” questions, which are not normally and-prefaced. Some strategic uses of and-prefaced questions are described, and the role of the device within the more general sociolinguistic context of the data is discussed.
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