Publications

Publication details [#1277]

Bennett, Adrian T. 1976. Strategies and counterstrategies in the use of yes-no questions in discourse. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 2 : 36–47.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
commitment | communicative success | conversation | conversational strategy | plan | yes-no question

Annotation

The main function of yes-no questions in conversation is, according to B., to get the hearer to make a commitment on the basis of which the speaker can then go on to carry a plan to a successful conclusion.

Reprints

Gumperz, John J. 1982. In Gumperz, John J., ed. Language and social identity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 95–107.