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Publication details [#54757]

Reynolds, Edward. 2011. Enticing a challengeable in arguments: Sequence, epistemics and preference organisation. Pragmatics 21 (3) : 411–430.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argument | conflict | conversational analysis | discourse strategy | question

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

Based on a collection of arguments during protests posted to YouTube, this paper uses conversation analysis (CA) to explore how participants in a specific form of adversarial talk, arguments during protests, deploy the interactional practice of uncontroversial questions as ‘pre-challenges’.