ABSTRACT
In daily adult life, if we were to ask one another questions to which we clearly knew the answer, this kind of behaviour would be regarded with suspicion. It would be extremely odd, for example, if one person were to say to another, ‘What’s the weather like today?’ when both could clearly see it was pouring with rain. Equally, if one adult were to ask another a series of probing questions, it would be regarded as socially rude and insensitive, invading the other’s privacy, the sort of behaviour only permitted when the person interrogated is suspected of having committed some criminal act.
