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Publication details [#49087]

Sorjonen, Marja-Leena and Mia Halonen. 2008. Using niin-interrogative to treat the prior speaker's action as an exaggeration. Discourse Studies 10 (1) : 37–53.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | disagreeing | interrogative1 | question

Language as a subject

Finnish

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper argues that the Finnish niin-interrogative allows the recipient to express his/her disagreement with the co-participant's exaggerated claim in such a way that open conflict can be avoided.