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Non-Linguistic Question Feeders in Information-Seeking Dialogues and Public Debate Analysis
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
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| Description | Our research focuses on understanding how questions guide public debate and argumentation. As we point out in (Ondráček et al., 2024), we view questions, or more precisely, the answers they elicit, as essential tools for introducing differences of opinion or interest in discussions. We treat questions in argumentative dialogues as scaffolding for the argumentative structure. For this, we adopt concepts introduced by van Kuppevelt (1995) – such as topic and question triggers, as well as those introduced within Inferential Erotetic Logic (Wiśniewski, 1991, 1996) and referring to the question dependency, which allows for explaining the rationale questions emerging in the debate. |