Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7297668 | Journal of Pragmatics | 2018 | 19 Pages |
Abstract
In this paper, using English conversational data, we examine type-conforming responses (Raymond, 2003) to polar (yes/no) interrogatives, and find that such responses show recurrent patterns in terms of their linguistic and bodily production. Specifically we show that these type-conforming responses often occur in sync with bodily-visible movements to form units that we call 'type-conforming response packages', or 'response packages' for short.
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Authors
Elise Kärkkäinen, Sandra A. Thompson,