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Publication details [#63874]
Seuren, Lucas M. 2018. Assessing Answers: Action Ascription in Third Position. Research on Language & Social Interaction 51 (1) : 33–51.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper handles assessments employed in third position to get replies to queries. It states that partakers discern two assessment kinds: evaluative and deontic ones. By assuming a certain stance in third position, speakers show their grasp of what the reply was doing and can actively impute an action to it. They thereby frame and assert intersubjectivity's architecture. Data are in Dutch with English translations.