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Varieties of Questions in English Conversation

Varieties of Questions in English Conversation PDF Author: Elizabeth G. Weber
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902722613X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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This book examines relations which hold between morphosyntactic form and communicative function in discourse by examining form-function correlations of noninterrogative questions in ordinary English conversation. So-called nontypical declarative and nonclausal questions are identified functionally. The role morphosyntax plays in the production and interpretation of these forms as doing questioning is then considered. Speakers are shown to use specific patterns of morphosyntactic marking to enable recipients to interpret noninterrogatives as functional questions. Explanations for morphosyntactic patterns found in the data are stated in terms of discourse use.