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Author	Ilie, Cornelia.
Title	Questioning and Answering Practices Across Contexts and Cultures.
Edition	1st ed.
OCLC	EBC6661685
ISBN	9789027259714 (electronic bk.)
	9789027209153
Publisher	Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021.
	�2021
Description	1 online resource (324 pages)
LC Subject heading/s	Questioning--Cross-cultural studies.
	Pragmatics--Cross-cultural studies.
	Interpersonal communication--Cross-cultural studies.
Other Genre heading/s	Electronic books
Contents	Intro -- Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Questions we (inter)act with: Interrelatedness of questions and answers across discourses -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Question-answer interplay: Problematizations in philosophical traditions -- 3. Question-answer interplay: Theoretical perspectives on forms and structures -- 4. Question-answer interplay: Usages and impacts across communities of practice -- 4.1 Question-answer interplay in courtroom interrogations -- 4.2 Question-answer interplay in police interviews -- 4.3 Question-answer interplay in doctor-patient interactions -- 4.4 Question-answer interplay in media interviews -- 4.5 Question-answer interplay in parliamentary debates -- 5. The contributions to this volume -- References -- Part I. Questioning and answering strategies in parliamentary discourses -- Evasive answers vs. aggressive questions: Parliamentary confrontational practices in Prime Minister's questions -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Data and research questions -- 2. Parliamentary questioning practices - previous studies -- 3. Parliamentary questions: Standard or non-standard questions? -- 4. Interrelatedness of parliamentary questions and answers -- i. Topical focus/foci of parliamentary questions and answers -- ii. Targets addressed by parliamentary questions -- iii. Goals pursued by parliamentary questions and impacts on parliamentary answers -- 5. Strategies of parliamentary questioning and answering in PMQs -- 6. Asking and answering parliamentary questions -- 6.1 Confirmation-eliciting questions and confirming/disconfirming- or evasive answers -- 6.2 Commitment-eliciting questions -- 6.3 Action-eliciting questions -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Japanese politicians' questions in parliament: Being polite yet forceful?.
	1. Introduction -- 2. Primary characteristics of the language in political settings with a focus on question-answer sessions -- 2.1 Politeness and impoliteness in parliament -- 3. Syntax, function, turn-taking and politeness -- 4. The language of Japanese politicians -- 5. Characteristics of questions in Japanese -- 6. The Japanese political system -- 6.1 House of Representatives committee meetings -- 7. The data -- 8. Results -- 8.1 Statistical results -- 8.2 Qualitative results -- 9. Polite and impolite questioning-answering -- 9.1 Politeness strategies -- 9.2 Aggressive questioning: Impoliteness in parliamentary discourse -- 9.3 Use of irony or overt criticism at the start of politicians' questions -- 10. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Part II. Questioning and answering strategies in legal and police discourses -- Pragmatic functions of question-answer sequences in Italian legal examinations and TV interviews with politicians -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Courtroom examinations and political interviews -- 1.2 Literature review -- 2. Aim and research questions of the study -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Sampling strategy -- 3.2 Final sample -- 3.3 Observation procedure -- 3.4 Category systems -- 3.5 Sequential data analysis -- 4. Corpus analysis and discussion -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Does the effect of the coerciveness of the question on the equivocation of the subsequent answer differ in the two contexts under consideration? -- 5.2 Does the effect of the equivocation of the answer on the coercion of the subsequent question differ in the two contexts? -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- "You were resisting the whole time!": Assumption of guilt in police-civilian question-response interactions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 2.1 Institutional discourse -- 2.2 Assumption of guilt -- 2.3 Question-response relationships.
	2.4 Framing differences -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Data analysis -- 4.1 Initial question/response sequences -- 4.2 Assumption of guilt -- 4.3 Conflicting frames -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Part III. Questioning and answering strategies in interview and TV-show discourses -- Constructing interrupting inquiries as cooperative interactions: Question-response-hai 'yes' sequences in Japanese interviews -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Theoretical approach -- 4. Data and methodology -- 5. The relationship between utterances before and after the [question-response-hai] sequence -- 5.1 Continuation -- 5.2 Resumption -- 5.3 Redesign -- 6. The responses of the interviewees -- 6.1 Transformative answer -- 6.2 Repetitional answer -- 6.3 Adoption of part of the question in the return -- 6.4 Combination of repetition, addition, and adoption -- 7. The role of the turn-final hai 'yes' -- 7.1 Degree of prompting force of hai -- 8. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Formulation questions and responses in Korean TV talk show interactions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: Formulation questions -- 3. Organization of formulation sequences -- 3.1 Formulation question as preliminary action -- 3.2 Post-expansion into assessment sequence -- 4. Turn design of formulation questions -- 4.1 Mundane character of formulation questions -- 4.2 Indexing high agentivity -- 5. Guest's disconfirmation: Competing agendas in organizing master narratives -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Devices of alignment: Suoyi- and danshi-prefaced questions in Mandarin Chinese TV news interviews -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 2.1 CA studies on QA organization and question design in news interviews -- 2.2 CA studies on connectives and connective-prefaced questions -- 3. Data and methods -- 4. Analysis.
	4.1 IR questions prefaced by suoyi -- 4.2 IR questions prefaced by dan(shi) -- 5. Discussion and concluding remarks -- References -- Appendix. Transcription conventions -- Part IV. Questioning and answering as strategies of interpersonal interaction at the public-private discourse interface -- "Doing being collegial": Participants' positioning work in Q& -- A sessions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Data and method -- 4. Analysis and findings -- 4.1 Question types -- 4.2 Response types -- 4.3 Practices for "doing collegiality" in audience member questioning turns -- 4.4 "Doing collegiality" in presenter responding turns -- 5. Discussion and implications -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Appendix. Transcription notations -- Question-answer sequences in Japanese first encounters: Wishing to get to know new persons vs. dispreferred behavior of asking questions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Social conversation and questions in Japanese -- 4. Questions in Japanese discourse: Why are they dispreferred? -- 4.1 Asking questions may compel the question recipient to speak -- 4.2 Asking questions may invade personal territory -- 4.3 Asking questions may generate or reveal conflict between interlocutors -- 4.4 Asking questions may interrupt the interlocutor's ongoing talk -- 4.5 Asking questions may reveal the interlocutor's inability to answer -- 5. Data and methodology -- 5.1 Data -- 5.2 Method -- 6. Findings and discussion -- 6.1 Asking questions may compel the question recipient to speak -- 6.2 Asking questions may invade personal territory -- 6.3 Asking questions may create or reveal a conflict between participants -- 6.4 Asking questions may interrupt the interlocutor's ongoing talk -- 6.5 Asking a question may reveal the interlocutors' inability to answer -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References.
	Appendix. Transcription symbols -- Index.
Summary	This book showcases innovative research about the multi-functional and dynamic interrelatedness of questioning and answering practices in institution- and culture-specific interactions ranging from under-explored to extensively researched ones.
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