Commentary on Stivers and Rossano: “Mobilizing Response”

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Notes

¹According to Dryer (2008), in 16% of the languages of the world polar questions lack interrogative lexico-syntax, in 40% there is no polar question particle.

²The mixture of syntactic and phonological terminology in this label is unfortunate.

³Although according to Schegloff (2007, p. 26) one may occasionally find minimal two-turn sequences here.

⁴In Kendon's understanding, an F-formation arises “when two or more people cooperate together to maintain a space between them to which they all have direct and exclusive access” (1990, p. 210).