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Requesting Confirmation or Reconfirmation across Languages: An Introduction

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This special issue presents a collection of conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic studies concerned with the cross-linguistic analysis of requests for confirmation (RfC) and requests for reconfirmation (RfRCs) as two distinct types of polar questions. In this paper, we outline a characterisation of the two actions with reference to their epistemic gradient and their sequential design, which does not take specific linguistic resources as its starting point and thus lends itself to comparative analysis. We review previous research on the linguistic design of RfCs and RfRCs and the responses they invite in different languages before we summarise the main findings of the papers in this issue. The final section discusses perspectives for future research on interactional and epistemic styles across languages.

Source: Contrastive Pragmatics

DOI: 10.1163/26660393-00001063

Authors: Katharina König, Martin Pfeiffer

Institutions: University of Münster, University of Potsdam

Language: English

Topic: Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Award: Interaktionale Linguistik Diskurspartikeln aus sprachvergleichender Perspektive