Publications

Publication details [#44015]

Heinemann, Trine. 2006. ‘Will you or can’t you?’: Displaying entitlement in interrogative requests. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (7) : 1081–1104.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | health | interrogative1 | old age | request

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study uses Danish caregiver-elderly interactions to show how care recipients' requests formulated as a positive or a negative interrogative influence the interaction in a different way.