'Will you or can't you?': Displaying entitlement in interrogative requests

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1081-1104

  Heinemann, Trine ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conversation Analysis; Entitlement; Negative interrogatives; Positive interrogatives; Requests

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646374637     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.09.013     Document Type: Article

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