Here, where the information is (or should be) "already known" to the questioner, respondents commonly answer such inquiries with oh-prefaced responses.
The questioner did not seem fully satisfied but did not pursue the matter further.
The structural process discussed here, then, is also about the rights of the interactants involved: the questioner and the questioned.
Many studies of the questioning of witnesses concentrate solely, or almost solely, on the lawyer as questioner.
The lack of comprehension was perhaps somehow seen as a loss of face for the questioner as well as for the candidate.
Consequently, questioners could infer that they should seek out a contextual analysis that would allow them to derive a conversational implicature.
Here we see the questioner again trying to isolate the precise aspects of the defendant, or the defendant's behavior, that were frightening to the witness.
These question management decisions were influenced by what they considered to be the motives of the questioner.
