Beyond Rhetorical Questions

Assertive questions in everyday interaction

Bibliographic Data

ID23397910
AuthorsIrene Koshik (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author)
Year2005
Publication date2005-05-26
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBeyond Rhetorical Questions (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/sidag.16
OpenAlexW612493583
Open LibraryOL38638724M
ISBN9789027226266
LanguageEN
Citations received122

This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends arguing over the phone, parents disciplining children, news interviews, and second language writing conferences. The questions are used across these widely different contexts to perform a number of related social actions such as accusations, challenges to prior turns, and complaints. Those used in institution settings, such as teacher-student conferences, orient to institutional norms and roles and can help accomplish institutional goals, e.g., eliciting student error correction. Both the interactional context in which these questions are embedded and the known epistemic authority of the questioner play a role in our understanding of these questions, i.e., what social actions the question is accomplishing in a particular interaction.

Context (archaeology) · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Discourse analysis · Institution · Linguistics · Phone · Rhetorical question · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Communication · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Questioning

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