Yes/No Questions as Topic Proposing Strategies

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2025年

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Ronald Geluykens

摘要

This chapter analyzes yes/no questions which serve as topic proposing (as opposed to topic eliciting, cf. chapter 5) strategies. It is argued that such questions, due to the projectability of the response in the question/answer adjacency pair, are ideally suited for introducing a new topic.

This chapter analyzes yes/no questions which serve as topic proposing (as opposed to topic eliciting, cf. chapter 5) strategies. It is argued that such questions, due to the projectability of the response in the question/answer&#xa0;adjacency pair, are ideally suited for introducing a new topic.

Yes/No Questions as Topic Proposing Strategies

摘要

This chapter analyzes yes/no questions which serve as topic proposing (as opposed to topic eliciting, cf. chapter 5) strategies. It is argued that such questions, due to the projectability of the response in the question/answer adjacency pair, are ideally suited for introducing a new topic.