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Publication details [#5899]
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 1973. Questionable answers and answerable questions. In Kachru, Braj B., ed. Issues in linguistics: Papers in honor of Henry and Renée Kahane. University of Illinois Press. pp. 453–467.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
Inquiry into the appropriateness conditions on asking and answering questions. A special case study is made of the use of the interjections 'why' and 'well'.