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Publication details [#57672]

Hayashi, Makoto and Shuya Kushida. 2013. Responding With Resistance to Wh-Questions in Japanese Talk-in-Interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction 46 (3) : 231–255.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

opposition | question-answer sequence | response | talk-in-interaction | when-question

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper explores the Japanese practice of using the negative response token iya in a turn-initial position in response to wh-questions in talk-in-interaction, in order to signal the respondent's problem with some aspect of the precedent question.