Chapter 6
Stance typology of TQs
Article outline
- 6.1Towards a systematic description of the stance types conveyed by English TQs
- 6.1.1TQs and modal particles
- 6.1.2TQs and the notion of common ground
- 6.2TQs as markers of common ground perception and negotiation
- 6.2.1Signalling a breach in common ground
- 6.2.1.1
Signalling a breach in and reconstructing common ground
- 6.2.1.1.1Signalling a breach with the speaker as origin.
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Stance type 1: Doubt of presupposed knowledge
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Stance type 2: Emphatic counter-expectation
- 6.2.1.1.2
Signalling a breach with the hearer as origin.
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Stance type 3: Informing
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Stance type 4: Unexpectedness of H’S stance
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Stance type 5: Unexpectedness of soa
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Stance type 6: Hedging
- 6.2.1.2
Signalling and exacerbating the breach
- 6.2.2Establishing common ground
- 6.3Comparison of the stance types and their properties
- 6.3.1A brief overview of the stance types
- 6.3.2The speaker–hearer commitment continuum
- 6.3.3Comparing stance types in relation to their properties
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Notes