An overview of the question-response system in American English conversation

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2772-2781

  Stivers, Tanya ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Content (WH) questions; Conversation; English; Polar (yes no) questions; Questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954541024     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.04.011     Document Type: Article

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