ON ANSWERING QUESTIONS INDIRECTLY: SOME RULES IN THE GRAMMAR OF DOING CONVERSATION1
作者:
ROBERT E. NOFSINGER,
期刊:
Human Communication Research
(WILEY Available online 1976)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 2
页码: 172-181
ISSN:0360-3989
年代: 1976
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1976.tb00709.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The mechanisms through which an indirect response to a question counts as a direct answer to that question can fruitfully be regarded as a process in which the listener supplies, constructs, infers, or is reminded of such statements as will (together with the indirect response itself) allow the inference of a plausible direct answer. This analysis presents seven rules of conversational interpretation, and likens conversational logic to the enthymeme. It also supports a widely asserted characteristic of conversation in general: that participants expect each other to cooperate in making utterances “make sense
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