Questioning and answering practices across contexts and cultures / edited by Cornelia Ilie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ilie, Cornelia, editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; 0922-842X v. 323.

Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&BNS), 0922-842X ; volume 323

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Questioning--Cross-cultural studies.

Questioning.

Pragmatics--Cross-cultural studies.

Pragmatics.

Interpersonal communication--Cross-cultural studies.

Interpersonal communication.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

vi, 316 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"This book showcases innovative research about the multi-functional and dynamic interrelatedness of questioning and answering practices in institution- and culture-specific interactions ranging from under-explored to extensively researched ones: South-Korean talk shows, Japanese interviews, Chinese news interviews, police-civilian interactions in the USA, Italian interviews and courtroom examinations, Japanese parliamentary debates and Prime Minister's Questions in the UK Parliament. Challenging the view that questions are asked with the purpose of seeking information and eliciting answers, these studies open up new research avenues through insightful investigations and critical scrutiny that problematize the question-answer paradigm, through which meanings are conveyed, negotiated and/or contested, and through which relationships are established, maintained and/or challenged. Significant findings show that questioning and answering strategies are shaped by the specific norms and constraints of particular communities of practice, while at the same time they are shaping the very same communities of practice. This book will appeal to interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners across the linguistic, media, political, legal and social sciences"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Questions we (inter)act with : interrelatedness of questions and answers in discourse / Cornelia Ilie

Evasive answers vs. aggressive questions : parliamentary confrontational practices in Prime Minister's questions / Cornelia Ilie

Japanese politicians' questions in parliament : being polite yet forceful? / Lidia Tanaka

Pragmatic functions of question-answer sequences in Italian legal examinations and TV interviews with politicians / Augusto Gnisci

"You were resisting the whole time!" Assumption of guilt in police-civilian question-response interactions / L. Guditus Casey

Constructing interrupting inquiries as cooperative interactions : question-response-hai 'yes' sequences in Japanese interviews / Momoko Nakamura

Formulation questions and responses in Korean TV talk show interactions / Kyu-hyun Kim and Kyung-hee Suh

Devices of alignment : suoyi- and danshi-prefaced questions in Mandarin Chinese TV news interviews / Hua Gao

"Doing being collegial" Participants' positioning work in Q&A sessions" / Elizabeth Reddington, Ignasi Clemente, Hansun Zhang Waring and Di Yu

Question-answer sequences in Japanese first encounters : wishing to get to know new persons vs. dispreferred behavior of asking questions / Yuka Shigemitsu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Questioning and answering practices across contexts and cultures

ISBN:

9789027209153

9027209154

OCLC:

1246284232