"I think that's not an assumption you ought to make": Challenging presuppositions in inquiry testimony

Language in Society

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 655-676

  Ehrlich, Susan ^a   Sidnell, Jack ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Courtroom discourse; Presupposition; Question answer sequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947415686     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404506060313     Document Type: Article

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