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question design in conversation; questions as pervasive in conversation and institutional interaction; questions in spontaneous interaction, and three contributing factors; most languages, having more than one way of asking polar questions; interrogative prosody, commonly deployed in polar questions; questioning and the epistemic gradient;
slope of epistemic gradient, finely tuned using grammatical/prosodic;
preference organization, preferences as constraints imposed by questions
Abstract:
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Questions
Questioning and the Epistemic Gradient
Presuppositions, Agenda Setting and Preferences
Social Actions Implemented by Questions
Questions as Building Blocks of Institutional Activities
Future Directions
