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Publication details [#14828]

Heritage, John. 1998. Oh-prefaced responses to inquiry. Language in Society 27 (3) : 291–334.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | particle | utterance

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

In English, oh-prefaced responses to questions (e.g. 'how are you' inquiries) suggest that the question is perceived as problematic, and that the answerer is reluctant to elaborate on the invoked topic.