Questions and Epistemic Stance in Contemporary Spoken British English

Andrzej Zuczkowski is Full Professor in General Psychology (retired) at the University of Macerata, Italy. He is interested in the semantic interpretation of texts, the pragmatics of dialogue, and the relationship between language and cognitive processes.Ramona Bongelli is Assistant Professor in General Psychology at the Department of Political Sciences, Communication and International Relations of the University of Macerata, Italy. Her main scientific interests concern the pragma-linguistic aspects of communication, discourse and conversation analysis, and scientific writing.Ilaria Riccioni is Assistant Professor in General Psychology at the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism of the University of Macerata, Italy. She is interested in the pragma-linguistic and relational dimensions of talk in interaction, discourse analysis, and scientific writing.Gill Philip is Associate Professor in English Language and Translation at the Department of Humanities of the University of Macerata, Italy. A corpus linguist, her main research interests straddle the interface between cognition and linguistic communication, particularly in phraseology and figurative language.