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Offering A Candidate Answer: An Information Seeking Strategy, Anita Pomerantz
Offering A Candidate Answer: An Information Seeking Strategy, Anita Pomerantz
Communication Faculty Scholarship
Interactants use a variety of strategies to seek information from one another. One strategy involves incorporating a Candidate Answer in a query. In using this strategy, a speaker provides a model of the type of answer that would satisfy his/her purpose-for-asking. Supplying a model is useful when a speaker wants to guide, direct, or assist a respondent in providing particular information. In offering a Candidate Answer, a speaker can display having knowledge and familiarity of a circumstance. A Candidate Answer can be read as revealing the speaker's attitude toward, and expectations of, relevant others.
Extreme Case Formulations: A Way Of Legitimating Claims, Anita Pomerantz
Extreme Case Formulations: A Way Of Legitimating Claims, Anita Pomerantz
Communication Faculty Scholarship
Extreme Case Formulations name a maximum case of the matter at hand, for example “all the time,” “everybody,” and “no one.” Three uses of Extreme Case Formulations are analyzed: to augment the nature of a wrongdoing while issuing complaints and accusations; to assert the strongest case while defend against charges and justifying one’s conduct; and to propose that one’s conduct is normal and ordinary by virtue of its status as frequently occurring or commonly done.