Questioning Presidents: Journalistic Deference and Adversarialness in the Press Conferences of U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan

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“…From above, we can see that follow-ups, if not all, at least some, will inherently bear adversarialness. Clayman and Heritage (2002a) distinguish between two forms of questions: the "why did you-type" and the "how could you-type". The former is seen as less hostile towards politicians than the latter (Goran Eriksson, 2011).…”

Question-answer sequences between doctors and patients in a

“…From both perspectives, it has been argued that communicative functions of questions can only be established by taking into account the discursive context, and, similarly, both approaches agree that institutional contexts generate certain phenomena, like question cascades (Clayman and Heritage 2002;Ehlich and Rehbein 1977) or question paraphrases.…”

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

“…Men igennem isaer det seneste årti er der sket store fremskridt i retning af at integrere det kvantitative perspektiv med konversationsanalysens ellers traditionelt kvalitative og mere hypotesegenererende tilgang. Det gaelder inden for området politisk kommunikation (se Clayman & Heritage 2002), men i nok så høj grad også studiet af laege-patient-samtaler. Et enkelt eksempel på det er studiet af den kvantitative fordeling af henholdsvis åbne og mere eller mindre lukkede åbningsspørgsmål under laegepatient-samtaler: Hvilke typer tages i brug, og hvilke samtalemaessige konsekvenser får det (se ?…”