Argumentative patterns initiated by closed-list questions in accountability dialogues
a corpus study of financial conference calls
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Authors
Rocci A.,
Yaskorska-Shah O.,
D'Agostino G.,
Lucchini C.
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2024
Language
English
Abstract
To illustrate a research strategy aiming at the discovery of recurrent contextually significant patterns in dialogic argumentative activity types, we investigate closed-list questions as a minimal argumentative pattern and as component of broader dialogical argumentative patterns, in the Q&A phase of Earnings Conference Calls, a key financial communication activity type. The argumentative affordances of closed-list questions are discussed as well as their formalisation in the metalanguage of Inference Anchoring Theory. A small corpus study provides verification of the hypothesized occurrence of activity-relevant uses of closed list questions for issue framing and for information elicitation as well as of the question’s potential in eliciting argumentative responses.
Conference proceedings
European Conference on Argumentation (ECA)
Meeting name
ECA 2022
Meeting place
Roma
Meeting date
2022
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Visibility
Public
Status open access
Green
