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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.
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.