Publications

Publication details [#57463]

Kim, Mary Shin. 2013. Answering questions about the unquestionable in Korean conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 57 (1) : 138–157.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

opposition | particle | problem solving | question-answer sequence | response

Language as a subject

Korean

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper discusses how Koreans, routinely attaching the 'ya' delimiter particle to a specific linguistic element of a question, walk a fine line between addressing problems in questions and answering them.