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Book: Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society and in Sociolinguistics

Chapter: 6 Questions as a mode of learning in everyday talk [1991]

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.30233

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1 Introduction; 2 Subjects in dialogue: the speakers and the data; 3 A model for the analysis of meaning in dialogue; 4 Some semantic attributes of questions; 5 Questions and answers: two profiles; 6 Conclusion

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