PREFERRED AND DISPREFERRED SECOND PARTS OF QUESTION-ANSWER ADJACENCY PAIRS

Authors

  • Ani ALOYAN Yerevan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2014/18.1.003

Keywords:

pragmatics, discourse analysis, adjacency pairs, general questions, special questions, disjunctive questions, rhetorical questions, dispreferred responses, preferred responses

Abstract

The present article is devoted to the study of adjacency pairs as units of conversation organization in modern English. The choice of the topic is conditioned by the rising interest to the linguistic studies of conversation organization. Thus, the purpose of the research has been the examination of the function of adjacency pairs as conversational units. The aim of the study was to discover how adjacency pairs function in and assist to the organization of conversation. In addition the analysis of semantics and pragmatics of adjacency pairs with preferred and dispreferred second parts was carried out.

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Published

2023-01-19

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (16) (2014)

Section

Linguistics

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