Offering a candidate answer: An information seeking strategy

Konversationsanalyse af læge-patient-samtaler. Status, overblik og muligheder

“…Boyd & Heritage (2006) dokumenterer en tendens til at laeger indhenter oplysninger med såkaldte optimerede spørgsmål. Mange spørgsmål i almindelighed, måske de fleste, har det med at indlejre spørgerens bedste gaet på hvad svaret kan vaere (Pomerantz 1988). Og i optimerede spørgsmål er der sammenfald mellem de syntaktisk markerede bedste bud på et svar og så det svar som socialt set anskues som det bedste for patienten ud fra en raekke muligheder.…”

“…Sådanne spørgsmål har det med at indlejre et såkaldt kandidatsvar, dvs. et bedste bud på hvad svaret kan vaere (Pomerantz 1988). Det gaelder også i dette tilfaelde, og her er "tre uger" laegens bedste bud.…”

On understandings of intention: A response to Wedgwood

“…In other words, through the laughter particle, the possibility of a non-serious or jocular interpretation of Chris's utterance (i.e., as a tease) is made available. The possible understanding of the utterance as implicating a teasing challenge arises from the content of the interrogative itself, embedded within which there is a particular candidate answer (Pomerantz 1988) perhaps cannot, treat patellar tendonitis. The plausibility of the analysis of this utterance as implying a possible teasing challenge is further evidenced in the fact that Emma has been extolling the advantages of acupuncture to Chris.…”

Cultures of education in action: Research on the relationship between interaction and cultural presuppositions regarding education in an international educational setting

“…Among the devices used by leaders to control interaction, one of the most common is the offering of candidate answers inside questions. By offering a candidate answer inside a question, the speaker guides the interlocutor to respond in a certain way, suggesting not only what is relevant as an answer but also what the anticipated answer might be (Pomerantz, 1988). Candidate answer questions are common in many social settings (Atkinson and Drew, 1979;Arminen, 2005;Heritage and Clayman, 2010), but in educational interaction they have a special relevance because educators use them to convey educational content through interrogatively formatted turns.…”