Rocci, Andrea Yaskorska-Shah, Olena D'Agostino, Giulia Lucchini, Costanza 2024 To illustrate a research strategy aiming at the discovery of recurrent contextually significant patterns in dialogic argumentative activity types, we investigate closed-list questions as a minimal argumentative pattern and as component of broader dialogical argumentative patterns, in the Q&A phase of Earnings Conference Calls, a key financial communication activity type. The argumentative affordances of closed-list questions are discussed as well as their formalisation in the metalanguage of Inference Anchoring Theory. A small corpus study provides verification of the hypothesized occurrence of activity-relevant uses of closed list questions for issue framing and for information elicitation as well as of the question’s potential in eliciting argumentative responses. application/pdf https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/335577 https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1335577 https://susi.usi.ch/documents/335577/files/3031922_638724480337708317.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1335577 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined European Conference on Argumentation (ECA). - 2024 info:eu-repo/classification/udc/65 Argumentative patterns initiated by closed-list questions in accountability dialogues : a corpus study of financial conference calls http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794