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Publication details [#60288]

Drake, Veronika. 2015. Indexing Uncertainty: The Case of Turn-Final Or. Research on Language and Social Interaction 48 (3) : 301–318.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Employing conversation analytic and interactional linguistic techniques and drawing from naturally occurring American English interaction, this paper explores the practice of closing polar questions with or and speakers' thus achieved interactional work, furthering the comprehension of how speakers codify linguistically and how linguistic units are adjusted for interaction.