Introducing direct complaints through questions: The interactional achievement of 'pre-sequences'?

Discourse Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-87

  Monzoni, Chiara Maria ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Direct complaints; Italian; Positive polar questions; Pre sequences; Wh questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949205701     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445607085591     Document Type: Article

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