Questions

Jan P. de Ruiter is Professor of Psycholinguistics in the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany.

• 1. Introduction: questions are what they do Jan P. de Ruiter; Part I. Questions: Interplay between Form and Function: 2. Interrogative intimations: on a possible social economics of interrogatives Stephen C. Levinson; 3. Structures and questions in decision-making dialogues Jerry R. Hobbs; 4. Mobilising response in interaction: a compositional view of questions Tanya Stivers and Frederico Rossano; 5. Wordless questions, wordless answers Herbert H. Clark; Part II. The Structure and Prosody of Questions: 6. Formal features of questions Jerry Sadock; 7. Some truths and untruths about final intonation in conversational questions Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen; 8. Shaping the intonation of WH-questions: information structure and beyond Aoju Chen; Part III. Questions and Stance: 9. Beyond answers: questions and children's learning Stanka A. Fitneva; 10. Navigating epistemic landscapes: acquiescence, agency and resistance in responses to polar questions John Heritage and Geoffrey Raymond; 11. Epistemic dimensions of polar questions: sentence-final particles in comparative perspective N. J. Enfield, Penelope Brown and Jan P. de Ruiter; 12. Multi-functionality of interrogatives: asking reasons for and wondering about an action as overdone Mia Halonen and Marja-Leena Sorjonen.