La función de la modalidad interrogativa en la conversación
Keywords:
questions. elicitation. polarity. rhetorical questions. interaction. casual conversation.Abstract
Conversation is a result of a co-construction process between participants (Linell, 1998) who use different kinds of questions in their moves. Grammatical distinctions ”“yes/no questions or wh-questions- are not enough to treat the intensive use of questions in conversation. Other theoretical perspectives such as Conversational Analysis (Schegloff, 2007) or sociopragmatical approaches (Heritage, 2002; Koshik, 2003; Heinemann, 2008) offer some particular functional explanations. On the basis of a corpus of twenty-four conversations between students of the University of La Plata, this paper focuses on the analysis of both elicitation and rhetorical questions, which do not expect an answer, but contribute different values to discursive dynamism.
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