Why do recordings of speakers engaging in reported speech at British Prime Minister's
Questions from the 1970s–80s sound so distant to us? This cutting-edge study explores how …

Through the analysis of presuppositions, question design, social action and preference
organisation in short fragments of Italian question-answer sequences, this paper aims to …

Viewing conversations from an epistemic perspective involves analysing how participants
navigate their knowledge, handle uncertainty, and address their lack of knowledge. This …

The authors of this book belong to two generations, I myself to the older one. Since we refer
in the book to two theories that emerged the last century, one psychological, Gestalt theory …

This volume explores a model of epistemic stance, according to which speakers can
communicate each single piece of information either as known/certain or uncertain or …

The topic focused on in the present paper is the relationship between dubitative questions
(Stivers and Enfield, 2010) and epistemic stance (Heritage, 2012a, Heritage, 2012b) …

Abstract Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) is a parliamentary session in the British House
of Commons where the Prime Minister (PM) takes questions from the Leader of the …

This study explores how guided tour interaction is achieved through certain question
formats, specifically known-answer questions (KAQs), as they are deployed by guides for …

Drawn from a larger project on reported speech in parliamentary interaction, this paper
studies visuo-material performances of so-called “literalized” quoting, ie, verbatim …

Zuczkowski et al.'s KUB model clarified three epistemic stances: Knowing/Certain, Not
Knowing Whether and Believing/Uncertain, and Unknowing/Neither Certain nor Uncertain …