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Publication details [#26683]

Athanasiadou, Angeliki. 1994. The pragmatics of answers. Pragmatics 4 (4) : 561–574.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

answer | question | response

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper seeks to characterize the outcome of the question-response connection. Both successful and unsuccessful responses are considered techniques of answering that differ according to the kinds of questions asked and the situations of use.