Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 2. Repetitional responses to polar questions in Russian conversation 40
6. Chapter 3. Responding to polar questions in Brazilian Portuguese 76
7. Chapter 4. Responses to polar questions in Polish 109
8. Chapter 5. Three practices for confirming inferences in French talk-in-interaction 139
9. Chapter 6. Complexities of responding 179
10. Chapter 7. The division of labor between the particles jah and jaa ‘yes’ as responses to requests for confirmation in Estonian 210
11. Chapter 8. Code-switching, agency, and the answer possibility space of Spanish-English bilinguals 239
12. Chapter 9. Post-confirmation modifications 272
13. Chapter 10. Responding to polar questions without a polarity item ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in Finnish 301
14. Chapter 11. Renewing a social action in US primary care 328
15. Chapter 12. Do English affirmative polar interrogatives with any favor negative responses? 350
16. Appendix. Transcription conventions and symbols for glossing 377
17. Subject index 381