
Requesting in Social Interaction
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 17. December 2014
Book
Hardback
371 pages
978-90-272-2636-5 (ISBN)
Description
There has been a remarkable revival of interest in how we conduct social actions in interaction - particularly in requesting, where recent research into video-recorded face-to-face interaction has taken our understanding in novel directions. This collection brings together some of the latest, cutting-edge research into requesting by leading international practitioners of Conversation Analysis. The studies trace a line of conceptual development from 'directive' to 'recruitment', and explore the acquisitional, cultural, situational and species-specific differentiation of forms for requesting in human social interaction.They represent the latest explorations into the complexities and controversies associated with the apparently simple but essential matter of how we ask another to do something for us.
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The volume is a pioneering work which regards requesting as a way in which one person recruits another's assistance and analyzes it combining social, semiotic and linguistic forms in different interactional and sequential contexts. It is highly recommended for scholars who are working in the field of daily conversation analysis and social interaction. -- Beishui Liao and Xiaojun Zhou, Zhejiang University, in Discourse Studies, Vol. 19.1, 2017More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
835 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2636-5 (9789027226365)
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Paul Drew | Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Requesting in Social Interaction
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Content
1. Acknowledgement; 2. Glossary of transcription conventions; 3. Requesting - from speech act to recruitment (by Drew, Paul); 4. Human agency and the infrastructure for requests (by Enfield, N.J.); 5. Benefactors and beneficiaries: Benefactive status and stance in the management of offers and requests (by Clayman, Steven E.); 6. The putative preference for offers over requests (by Kendrick, Kobin H.); 7. On divisions of labor in request and offer environments (by Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth); 8. The social and moral work of modal constructions in granting remote requests (by Steensig, Jakob); 9. Two request forms of four year olds (by Wootton, Anthony J.); 10. Orchestrating directive trajectories in communicative projects in family interaction (by Goodwin, Marjorie Harness); 11. How to do things with requests: Request sequences at the family dinner table (by Mandelbaum, Jenny); 12. On the grammatical form of requests at the convenience store: Requesting as embodied action (by Sorjonen, Marja-Leena); 13. Requesting immediate action in the surgical operating room: Time, embodied resources and praxeological embeddedness (by Mondada, Lorenza); 14. When do people not use language to make requests? (by Rossi, Giovanni); 15. "Requests" and "offers" in orangutans and human infants (by Rossano, Federico); 16. Subject Index; 17. Name Index