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An utterance that asks “the listener whether they understood, rather than making them prove it. It takes a “yes” or “no” as an answer [1]

Difference to diagnostic query: the tutor does not know the answer. The realisation of the two can be the same (”Do you understand?”), but the obligations that they pose are different: diagnostic queries require more than ”yes” or ”no” as an answer.


Example (1):

-Do you now understand how this relates to the implication?





Notes

  1. Karagjosova, E., & Tsovaltzi, D. (2005). Dialogue moves for DIALOG.