'Are you going to ask me a question?' The discourse/pragmatic functions of interrogatives in learner interviewee speech
(2016) ESSE2016 — Location: Galway (22.August.2016)
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- The Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) contains informal interviews with intermediate to advanced level learners of English as a foreign language. In spite of the interview's fixed turn-taking format (Lazaraton 1992) and of the interviewees' obligation to answer questions (Fiksdal 1990), interrogative clauses can be found in the learner interviewee turns in LINDSEI. This paper sets out to explore the discourse/pragmatic functions of these interrogative clauses and more specifically of the Wh-questions and yes/no-questions (Biber et al 1999) used by the learners in four subcorpora included on the LINDSEI CD-ROM (Gilquin et al. 2010), namely LINDSEI_CHINESE, LINDSEI_DUTCH, LINDSEI_FRENCH and LINDSEI_POLISH. The paper examines and illustrates the various discourse/pragmatic functions uncovered in the data (e.g. speech management, rapport building, metadiscursive function) and discusses both the impact of the LINDSEI interview format on some of the pragmatic strategies used by the learners and possible pedagogical applications of the study.
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De Cock, S. (2016). ‘Are you going to ask me a question?’ The discourse/pragmatic functions of interrogatives in learner interviewee speech. ESSE2016, Galway. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/181187