Connections between grammar and social organization are examined via one of the most pervasive practices of speaking used in talk-in-interaction: yes/no type interrogatives and the turns speakers ...

The Black Scholar, Vol. 49, No. 2, Black Masculinities and the Matter of Vulnerability (Summer 2019), pp. 11-26 (16 pages) Daina Ramey Berry, “Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe”: Gender and ...

There are two kinds of interrogative sentences. The first type are affirmation questions wherein the speaker is trying to get the addressee to assert whether or not a proposition underlying the ...