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Publication details [#26068]

Heritage, John and Marja-Leena Sorjonen. 1994. Constituting and maintaining activities across sequences: And-prefacing as a feature of question design. Language in Society 23 (1) : 1–29.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

connective | discourse analysis | medical conversation

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper focuses on the role and function of the connective AND as question preface in informal medical encounters. It is argued that in such contects AND-prefacing links a question with a routine character to a preceding question/answer pair or pairs. The general characteristics of AND-prefaced questions are contrasted with "follow-up" or "contingent" questions.