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Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and CulturesEdited by Cornelia Ilie
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 323] 2021
► pp. 1–32
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 323] 2021
► pp. 1–32
Questions we (inter)act with
Interrelatedness of questions and answers in discourse
Article outline
- 1.Preliminaries
- 2.Question-answer interplay: Problematizations in philosophical traditions
- 3.Question-answer interplay: Theoretical perspectives on forms and structures
- 4.Question-answer interplay: Usages and impacts across communities of practice
- 4.1Question-answer interplay in courtroom interrogations
- 4.2Question-answer interplay in police interviews
- 4.3Question-answer interplay in doctor-patient interactions
- 4.4Question-answer interplay in media interviews
- 4.5Question-answer interplay in parliamentary debates
- 5.The contributions to this volume
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