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Part of
Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 323] 2021
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Questions we (inter)act with: Interrelatedness of questions and answers in discourse1
Part I.Questioning and answering strategies in parliamentary discourses
Evasive answers vs. aggressive questions: Parliamentary confrontational practices in Prime Minister’s Questions35
Japanese politicians’ questions in parliament: Being polite yet forceful?71
Part II.Questioning and answering strategies in legal and police discourses
Pragmatic functions of question-answer sequences in Italian legal examinations and TV interviews with politicians109
“You were resisting the whole time!”: Assumption of guilt in police-civilian question-response interactions145
Part III.Questioning and answering strategies in interview and TV-show discourses
Constructing interrupting inquiries as cooperative interactions: Question-response-hai ‘yes’ sequences in Japanese interviews167
Formulation questions and responses in Korean TV talk show interactions193
Devices of alignment: Suoyi- and danshi-prefaced questions in Mandarin Chinese TV news interviews227
Part IV.Questioning and answering as strategies of interpersonal interaction at the public-private discourse interface
“Doing being collegial”: Participants’ positioning work in Q&A sessions257
Question–answer sequences in Japanese first encounters: Wishing to get to know new persons vs. dispreferred behavior of asking questions285
Index313


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