The Book of Answers: Alignment, Autonomy, and Affiliation in Social Interaction

by Tanya Stivers

Imagine for a moment the only way to confirm a yes-no question was by saying Yeah. How different would this make our communication? Relying on a large corpus of naturally occurring recordings of spontaneous social interaction, this book explores all of the ways that we confirm questions in our everyday social lives.

Tanya Stivers analyzes what these different ways of responding allow us to do that is unique to each answer type. When do we answer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197563899
• ISBN13: 9780197563892
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"