Why Do You Ask?

1.: Susan Ehrlich and Alice F. Freed: The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse: An Introduction 2.: Jack Sidnell: The Design and Positioning of Questions in Inquiry Testimony 3.: John Heritage: Questioning in Medicine 4.: Alex Hepburn and Jonathan Potter: Interrogating Tears: Some Uses Of 'Tag Questions' In A Child Protection Helpline 5.: Geoffrey Raymond: Grammar and Social Relations: Alternative Forms of Yes/No Type Initiating Actions in Health Visitor Interaction 6.: Elizabeth Stokoe and Derek Edwards: Asking Ostensibly Silly Questions in Police-Suspect Interrogations 7.: Susan A. Speer: Pursuing Views and Testing Commitments: Hypothetical Questions in the Psychiatric Assessment of Transsexual Patients 8.: Irene Koshik: Questions that Convey Information in Teacher-Student Conferences 9.: Janet Holmes and Tina Chiles: Is that right? Questions and Questioning as Control Devices in the Workplace 10.: Cecilia E. Ford: Questioning in Meetings: Participation and Positioning 11.: Srikant Sarangi: The Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Reflective Questions in Genetic Counselling 12.: Steven Clayman: Questions in Broadcast Journalism 13.: Joanna Thornborrow: Questions and Institutionality in Public Participation Broadcasting 14.: Alice F. Freed: "I'm calling to let you know!": Company Initiated Telephone-Sales 15.: Anna Kristina Hultgren and Deborah Cameron: "How may I help you?" Questions, Control and Customer Care in Telephone Call Centre Talk