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Publication details [#49089]

Monzoni, Chiara Maria. 2008. Introducing direct complaints through questions: the interactional achievement of 'pre-sequences'? Discourse Studies 10 (1) : 73–87.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complaining | polarity | question | wh-question

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses how positive polar question and wh-question designs occurring in the different interactional settings of institutional calls and ordinary face-to-face interactions, produce a direct complaint in third position, resulting from interactional achievement.