Eliciting the unsayable: Chinese teachers’ approximation elicitors in out-of-class settings
Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk
Published online on February 12, 2026
Abstract
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When students resist answering sensitive questions, teachers face dual pragmatic challenges: eliciting a response while mitigating the face-threat acts. This study conceptualizes teachers’ use of approximation elicitors, strategies to reformulate and ...
When students resist answering sensitive questions, teachers face dual pragmatic challenges: eliciting a response while mitigating the face-threat acts. This study conceptualizes teachers’ use of approximation elicitors, strategies to reformulate and ...