Transformative answers: One way to resist a questions constraints

Language in Society

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-25

  Stivers, Tanya ^a   Hayashi, Makoto ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Alignment; Conversation Analysis; Evasion; Japanese; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049108971     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404509990637     Document Type: Article

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