Definition of "question-answer paradigm"

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The Question-Answer Paradigm:
You Might Regret Not Noticing How a Question Is Worded
Gun R. Semin and Christianne J. De Poot, Social Psychology Department,
Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

	The core theme of the QAP is that there are systematic differences
	in the way in which people answer two questions that are similar on
	the surface but differ in terms of the type of verb used in
	formulating the question.  Consider the questions "Why do you like
	the Washington Post?" and "Why do you read the Washington Post?"

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Intonation and Information Structure.
Klaus von Heusinger
(Habilitationsschrift. Universität Konstanz. 1999)

http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart.de/vonHeusinger/publications/abstracts/habil.html

In Chapter 4 "Semantic theories of focus" quotes "Rooth, 1985"
(no further reference given):

	"...a question introduces a set of alternatives into a
	discourse; (...). The function of the focus in the answer (...),
	I suggest, is to signal that alternatives of this form are indeed
	under considerations."

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A Theory of Focus Interpretation
Mats Rooth
IMS, Universiträt Stuttgart

http://people.cornell.edu/pages/mr249/

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Brief Encounters Ending in Estrangement: Motivated Language Use and
Interpersonal Rapport in the Question-Answer Paradigm.
Rubini, M., & Kruglanski, A. W. (1997).
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 1047-1060.

	"need-for-closure effects"

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Lateralization of prosody during language production: A lesion study
Annual Report 2000, Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig
Schirmer, A., Alter, K., Kotz, S.A. & Friederici, A.D.

	"The present study is aimed at specifying the lateralization of prosody
	in the brain.  Therefore, the speech production of six right hemisphere
	lesion patients and five left hemisphere lesion patients was compared
	to that of seven normal controls using a question-answer-paradigm."

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Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms
James F. Lee
1999 McGraw-Hill

concerned with practicalities of teaching
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Note there is also "Question/Answer validation pattern" "QAp" used in 
computer interface design.


