Asking different types of polar questions: The interplay between turn, sequence, and context in writing conferences

Discourse Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 613-633

  Park, Innhwa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; declaratives; epistemic asymmetry; interrogatives; pedagogical practices; polar questions; question answer sequences; student questions; writing conference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867370620     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445612454077     Document Type: Article

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