Critical Analysis of Questioning in Conversations - Xiamen University English Language and Literature Doctoral Library

Author: Wang Jinjun
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book discusses the issue of "questions as an important means of exercising power in conversation," arguing that questions are indeed important tools for implementing power in both everyday and institutional conversations. It further points out that questions in everyday conversation control immediate turn-taking and temporary topics, thereby potentially exercising power. In contrast, questions in institutional conversations distinctly implement power due to three factors.