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  title info:
    title: Why do you ask?
    sub title: the function of questions in institutional discourse
  name:
    name part: Freed, Alice F.
    name part: 1946-
  name:
    name part: Ehrlich, Susan (Susan Lynn)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 356 pages)
  abstract: The act of questioning is the primary speech interaction between an institutional speaker and someone outside the institution. These roles dictate their language practices. This volume focuses solely on the question/answer process, drawing on a range of methodological approaches.
  table of contents: The function of questions in institutional discourse : an introduction / Susan Ehrlich and Alice F. Freed -- The design and positioning of questions in inquiry testimony / Jack Sidnell -- Questioning in medicine / John Heritage -- Interrogating tears : some uses of "tag questions" in a child-protection helpline / Alex Hepburn and Jonathan Potter -- Grammar and social relations : alternative forms of yes/no-type initiating actions in health visitor interactions / Geoffrey Raymond -- Asking ostensibly silly questions in police-suspect interrogations / Elizabeth Stokoe and Derek Edwards -- Pursuing views and testing commitments : hypothetical questions in the psychiatric assessment of transsexual patients / Susan A. Speer -- Questions that convey information in teacher-student conferences / Irene Koshik -- "Is that right?" : questions and questioning as control devices in the workplace / Janet Holmes and Tina Chiles -- Questioning in meetings : participation and positioning / Cecilia E. Ford -- The spatial and temporal dimensions of reflective questions in genetic counseling / Srikant Sarangi -- Questions in broadcast journalism / Steven Clayman -- Questions and institutionality in public participation broadcasting / Joanna Thornborrow -- "I'm calling to let you know!" : company-initiated telephone sales / Alice F. Freed -- "How may I help you?" : questions, control, and customer care in telephone call center talk / Anna Kristina Hultgren and Deborah Cameron.
  note: edited by Alice F. Freed and Susan Ehrlich.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Oral communication
  subject:
    topic: Questioning
  subject:
    topic: Communication orale
  subject:
    topic: Interrogation
  subject:
    topic: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
    topic: Friendship
  subject:
    topic: Oral communication
  subject:
    topic: Questioning
  classification: P95.52 .W58 2010eb
  classification: 302.3/46
  classification: ER 990
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Why do you ask?
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
    identifier: (DLC) 2009006795
  identifier: 019804190X
  identifier: 9780198041900
  identifier: 9780195306897
  identifier: 0195306899
  identifier: 9780195306903
  identifier: 0195306902
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  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 100222
    record change date: 20260318175236.0
    record identifier: in00005704695
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng