Question-response argumentation in talk shows

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 975-999

  Ilie, Cornelia ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Argument eliciting (question); Argument prefacing (question); Echo question; Expository question; Non standard question; Rhetorical question

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033176880     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-2166(99)00056-9     Document Type: Article

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