“ThroughProduced” Multiple Questions in TagalogEnglish Faculty Meetings: Setting the Agenda Dimension of Questions

This study describes the sequential pattern of “throughproduced” multiple questions using Conversation Analysis that sets the agenda dimension of questions, and the academic conditions that advance its use during turns at talk from five faculty meetings. Results show that a. No firstpair of the “throughproduced” questions has been answered; b. the answers to the secondpair questions are achieved through paraphrases, clarifications, keyword repetitions, and circuitous rephrasing until the hearer conforms with the agenda set; c. The subordinates frame their default identities with lower epistemic knowledge, and d. “Throughproduced” multiple questions can be a manifestation of Chair’s power. Implications and recommendations for crosslinguistic comparisons are offered to generalize the findings beyond the specific domain of the meeting.