Conversational backoff  

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Rawlins, Kyle

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Vancouver, British Colombia, April 29 - May 1, 2010, page 347–365,.
Topik: English language; questions; responses; disagreement; discourse; dynamics; conditionals.
Fulltext: 347-365.pdf (157.64KB)

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Abstract I explore and analyze a phenomenon (“conversational backoff”) where, instead of accepting an assertion in the normal way, a speaker challenges its exhaustiveness, but not its content. The result is that speakers publicly back off of the exhaustivity of the claim. These challenges are typically triggered by special questions of a conditional type, and I focus in particular on the case of “what if” questions, developing a detailed analysis of their semantics and dynamics.

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