Confirmation or elaboration: What do yes/no declaratives want?

Recent analyses have argued that when requests for confirmation are implemented with declarative word order, they are closure-implicative due to the relatively knowing stance indexed with the declarative. This article demonstrates, however, that in some cases participants show an orientation to both...

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Päätekijät: Seuren, L, Huiskes, M
Aineistotyyppi: Journal article
Julkaistu: Taylor and Francis 2017
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description Recent analyses have argued that when requests for confirmation are implemented with declarative word order, they are closure-implicative due to the relatively knowing stance indexed with the declarative. This article demonstrates, however, that in some cases participants show an orientation to both confirmation and elaboration as a relevant next action. By comparing requests for confirmation that are closure-implicative to those that are expansion-implicative, it is argued that in addition to epistemic stance, participants also orient to the lexical design features and sequential placement of these declarative yes/no-type initiating actions to determine the relevant type of response. Data are in Dutch with English translations.
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spelling oxford-uuid:c8e2f2b8-0597-4959-89e9-7f43fd6c90982022-03-27T06:55:11ZConfirmation or elaboration: What do yes/no declaratives want?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:c8e2f2b8-0597-4959-89e9-7f43fd6c9098Symplectic Elements at OxfordTaylor and Francis2017Seuren, LHuiskes, MRecent analyses have argued that when requests for confirmation are implemented with declarative word order, they are closure-implicative due to the relatively knowing stance indexed with the declarative. This article demonstrates, however, that in some cases participants show an orientation to both confirmation and elaboration as a relevant next action. By comparing requests for confirmation that are closure-implicative to those that are expansion-implicative, it is argued that in addition to epistemic stance, participants also orient to the lexical design features and sequential placement of these declarative yes/no-type initiating actions to determine the relevant type of response. Data are in Dutch with English translations.
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