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Freed, Alice F. 1994. The form and function of questions in informal dyadic conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 21 (6) : 621–644.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

This paper focuses on the multiple ways that questions function for speakers in informal dyadic conversation, varying along an information continuum, and on the correspondences between their pragmatic/social function and their syntactic form.