Wh-questions used as challenges

By Irene Koshik. 2003

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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In General Health Professions

1. Jinjun Wang
2. Numa Markee
3. Melisa Stevanovic

In Language and Linguistics

1. Jinjun Wang
2. Numa Markee
3. Melisa Stevanovic
4. A. Peräkylä
5. Hansun Zhang Waring
6. John Hellermann
7. Steve Walsh

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Jinjun Wang
2. Numa Markee
3. Melisa Stevanovic
4. A. Peräkylä

Citations in the corpus

• Establishing joint decisions in a dyad (2012, background): “Even if questions can sometimes be understood as attempts to challenge the co-participant’s views (Koshik, 2003; Steensig and Drew, 2008), this is not necessarily the case here.”
• Zones of Interactional Transition in ESL Classes (2004, background): “Teacher 1 American English Teacher 2 British English Learner 1 Colombian Spanish Learner 9 Malay Learner 6 Colombian Spanish Learner 10 Mandarin Chinese Learner 9 Sesotho Learner 11 Mandarin Chinese Learner 11 Austrian German Learner 12 Japanese Learner 14 Khmer Learner 15 Malay ( Koshik, 2003 ).”
• Questions and the exercise of power (2006, background): “These questions often subsume ‘hostile question content’ (Heritage, 2002: 1427) or can be ‘used as challenges’ (Koshik, 2003: 51).”