"Why do you ask?"
Subtitle: the function of questions in institutional discourse
By: edited by Alice F. Freed and Susan Ehrlich.
Contributors: Freed, Alice F., 1946-; Ehrlich, Susan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195306897; 9780195306903
Subjects: Oral communication; Questioning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The design and positioning of questions in inquiry testimony / Jack Sidnell; title: Questioning in medicine / John Heritage; title: Interrogating tears : some uses of "tag questions" in a child protection helpline / Alex Hepburn and Jonathan Potter; title: Grammar and social relations : alternative forms of yes/no type initiating actions in health visitor interaction / Geoffrey Raymond; title: Asking ostensibly silly questions in police-suspect interrogations / Elizabeth Stokoe and Derek Edwards; title: Pursuing views and testing commitments : hypothetical questions in the psychiatric assessment of transsexual patients / Susan A. Speer; title: Questions that convey information in teacher-student conferences / Irene Koshik; title: Is that right? : questions and questioning as control devices in the workplace / Janet Holmes and Tina Chiles; title: Questioning in meetings : participation and positioning / Cecilia E. Ford; title: The spatial and temporal dimensions of reflective questions in genetic counselling / Srikant Sarangi; title: Questions in broadcast journalism / Steven Clayman; title: Questions and institutionality in public participation broadcasting / Joanna Thornborrow; title: "I'm calling to let you know!" : company initiated telephone-sales / Alice F. Freed; title: "How may I help you?" : questions, control, and customer care in telephone call centre talk / Anna Kristina Hultgren and Deborah Cameron.