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Publication details [#53457]

Stivers, Tanya and Makoto Hayashi. 2010. Transformative answers: One way to resist a question’s constraints. Language in Society 39 (1) : 1–25.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | answer | constraints on variability | question | transformation

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper examines the concept of transformative answers, allowing question recipients to retroactively adjust to the question posed to them. It discusses two major sorts of adjustments: question term transformations and question agenda transformations and investigates how they affect alignment and affiliation.