In:Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts
Edited by Galina B. Bolden, John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction 35] 2023
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 27 November 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.35.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.35.toc
Table of contents
AcknowledgmentsVII
Chapter 1.Introduction: Polar questions and their responses1
Galina B. Bolden
John Heritage
Marja-Leena Sorjonen
Chapter 2.Repetitional responses to polar questions in Russian
conversation40
conversation40
Galina B. Bolden
Chapter 3.Responding to polar questions in Brazilian Portuguese: É-responses and repeats76
Katariina Harjunpää
Ana Cristina Ostermann
Chapter 4.Responses to polar questions in Polish109
Matylda Weidner
Chapter 5.Three practices for confirming inferences in French talk-in-interaction: Repetition, voilà, and exact(ement)139
Rasmus Persson
Chapter 6.Complexities of responding: Confirming responses to pseudo-tag questions in Korean conversation179
Seung-Hee Lee
Chapter 7.The division of labor between the particles jah and jaa ‘yes’ as responses to requests for
confirmation in Estonian210
Tiit Hennoste
Andriela Rääbis
Andra Rumm
Kirsi Laanesoo
Chapter 8.Code-switching, agency, and the answer possibility space of Spanish-English bilinguals239
Chase Wesley Raymond
Chapter 9.Post-confirmation modifications: Trajectories of un-initiated responses to polar questions in Japanese272
Kaoru Hayano
Makoto Hayashi
Chapter 10.Responding to polar questions without a polarity item
‘yes’ or ‘no’ in Finnish301
‘yes’ or ‘no’ in Finnish301
Heidi Vepsäläinen
Anna Sundqvist
Marja-Leena Sorjonen
Auli Hakulinen
Chapter 11.Renewing a social action in US primary care: One sequential context when actions formatted as polar questions do not require polar answers328
Jeffrey D. Robinson
John Heritage
Chapter 12.Do English affirmative polar interrogatives with any favor
negative responses?350
negative responses?350
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Sandra A. Thompson
Barbara A. Fox
Appendix.Transcription conventions and symbols for glossing377
Subject index
