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- Title
Polar questions, social actions and epistemic stance.
- Authors
Hennoste, Tiit; Rääbis, Andriela; Laanesoo, Kirsi
- 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.
- Subjects
SOCIAL action; LANGUAGE &; languages; DANISH language; ESTONIAN language; ENGLISH language
- Publication
STUF: Language Typology & Universals, 2017, Vol 70, Issue 3, p523
- ISSN
1867-8319
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/stuf-2017-0023