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Offering a candidate answer: An information seeking strategy
Abstract
Interactants use a variety of strategies to seek information from one another. One strategy involves incorporating a Candidate Answer in a query. In using this strategy, a speaker provides a model of the type of answer that would satisfy his/her purpose‐for‐asking. Supplying a model is useful when a speaker wants to guide, direct, or assist a respondent in providing particular information. In offering a Candidate Answer, a speaker can display having knowledge and familiarity of a circumstance. A Candidate Answer can be read as revealing the speaker's attitude toward, and expectations of, relevant others.
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- Authors
- Pomerantz, A.
- Venue
- Communication Monographs
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1988-12
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 360-373
- ISSN
- 0363-7751 (ISSN-L)
- 1479-5787
- OpenAlex
- W2165006180
- Cited by
- 513
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 30.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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