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Publication details [#49088]

Heinemann, Trine. 2008. Questions of accountability: yes—no interrogatives that are unanswerable. Discourse Studies 10 (1) : 55–71.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
answer | interrogative1 | question | recipient design
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses why 'Same Polarity Questions' are treated by recipients as unanswerable and oriented to as a challenge.