2 This is not a course in trial practice: Multimodal participation in objections
Numerous researchers argue that institutional interaction is organized around questions and answers. According to Tracy and Robles (2009: 131), “Questioning is one of, if not the, central communicative practice of institutional encounters.” In a similar vein, Freed and Ehrlich (2012: 3) state: “The study of questioning has always been central to investigation of institutional discourse.” Speech events like interviewer-interviewee (Clayman and Heritage 2002), doctor-patient (Heritage 2010), teacher-student (McHoul 1978), police-suspect (Komter 1998), counselor-counselee (Erickson & Schultz 1981), and lawyer-witness (Atkinson & Drew 1979) consist of asymmetrical ...
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