Cover -- Series page -- The Book of Answers -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Questions We Answer -- 3. Responding with a Non-Answer -- 4. Interjections -- 5. Repetitions -- 6. Transformations -- 7. The Modular Response Possibility Space -- Index
Summary
The Book of Answers analyzes all the ways that we confirm questions in our everyday social lives. When do we answer with Yeah rather than He is, for instance; or when do we use more complicated forms of confirming? Relying on a large corpus of naturally occurring recordings of spontaneous social interaction, Tanya Stivers analyzes what each unique way of responding allows us to do
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academics, viewed March 30, 2023)
