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Oh-prefaced responses to inquiry
Abstract
In responses to English questions, prefacing with the particle oh indicates that, from the viewpoint of the answerer, a question is problematic in terms of its relevance, presuppositions, or context. In addition, oh-prefacing is used to foreshadow reluctance to advance the conversational topic invoked by a question; it may also be part of a “trouble-premonitory” response to various types of How are you inquiries in conversational openings and elsewhere. (Conversation analysis, English, utterance design, particles.)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Heritage, J.
- Venue
- Language in Society
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1998-06
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 291-334
- ISSN
- 0047-4045 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8013
- OpenAlex
- W4233193775
- Cited by
- 689
- References
- 38
- FWCI
- 41.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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