Grammar and Social Relations

Why Do You Ask?: The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-31

  Raymond, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistemic stance; Expansive response; Grammatical form of questions; Health visitor nurse; Nonexpansive response; Yes no declaratives; Yes no interrogatives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919517913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306897.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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