Requesting in Social Interaction
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 2014
X, 371 pages
978-90-272-6928-7 (ISBN)
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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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- Requesting in Social Interaction
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Glossary of transcription conventions
- Acknowledgement
- Glossary of transcription conventions
- Requesting - from speech act to recruitment
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The evolution of research into requesting - speech acts
- 3. Requesting in contexts of interaction
- 4. Contemporary studies - the interactional turn
- 5. The visual turn: Requests as recruitments
- 6. The organization of this volume
- References
- Human agency and the infrastructure for requests
- 1. Flexibility in the pursuit of goals
- 2. Language+ as a tool for mobilizing others
- 3. The distribution of agency
- 4. Hallmarks of requesting
- 4.1 B wants to do the requested action
- 4.2 Roles may be reversed
- 4.3 The goal may be shared
- 4.4 B need not comply
- 4.5 One may need to give B reasons why they should do the requested action
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix. Abbreviations used in glosses of Lao examples
- Benefactors and beneficiaries
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Benefactive stance
- 2.1 Formulating participants' interests in the nominated action
- 2.2 Formulating Agents and Recipients
- 2.3 Benefactive Rendering of the Nominated Action Itself
- 3. Benefactive Appreciations
- 3.1 Explicit Appreciations
- 3.2 Appreciative assessments
- 3.3 Reciprocations
- 4. In pursuit of acceptance: A 'felicific calculus'
- 4.1 Maximizing benefits
- 4.2 Minimizing Costs
- 5. Benefactive status and stance: Congruence and departures
- Fungible status, optional stances
- Infungible status, manipulative stances
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- The putative preference for offers over requests
- 1. Introduction
- 2. When do requests and offers occur in conversation?
- 3. The turn design of requests and offers
- 4. One action masquerading as another
- 5. Do offers forestall requests?
- 6. What is the relationship between offers and requests?
- 6.1 Requests can occur in response to offers
- 6.2 Offers can occasion requests
- 6.3 Requests can occasion offers
- 6.4 Reports and displays of problems can elicit offers of solutions
- 6.5 Ungrantable requests can occasion offers of alternatives
- 7. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- On divisions of labor in request and offer environments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The phenomenon
- 2.1 Schemas 1 and 2
- 2.2 Schemas 1 and 2 as constructions
- 3. Activity context and rationale
- 3.1 Request environments
- 3.2 Offer environments
- 3.3 The rationale
- 4. Sequential position and distribution of forms
- 5. Comparison of English and Finnish constructions
- 6. Summary and conclusions
- References
- The social and moral work of modal constructions in granting remote requests
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data, method and formats
- 3. Responses without modal adverbs: Committing to a requested action as bilaterally relevant
- 4. Responses with modal adverbs: Committing to a requested action as unilaterally relevant
- 4.1 "Ska(l) nok" - Committing to a requested action out of obligation
- 4.2 "Ka(n) godt" - Committing to a requested action as a concession
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Two request forms of four year olds
- 1. I want x
- 2. Can I have/do x
- 3. Potential deviant cases
- 4. Requests after imperatives
- 5. Sequence initial requests
- 6. Conclusions
- Appendix: Transcript conventions
- References
- Orchestrating directive trajectories in communicative projects in family interaction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data and Methodology
- 3. Launching Directives at Activity Junctures
- 3.1 Directives with question format in English within a haptic framework and compliant responses
- 3.2 Facing formations, haptic action, and transitioning in directive sequences
- 3.3 Launching a directive and opening a negotiation space with a Swedish modal interrogative 'ska du'/'are you going to'
- 3.4 Haptic directives and embodied compliance in the "ska du?"/'are you going to?' trajectory
- 4. Launching directives amidst children's ongoing activities: Imperatives and defiant non-compliant responses
- 5. Declarative directives about time and embodied affective responses
- 5.1 Reluctant agreement (Okay) and embodied exasperation (Uh::)
- 5.2 Defiant refusal (No)
- 5.3 Correction, reluctant agreement, and compliant unhappiness
- 5.4 Whiny pleading objections in English and Swedish
- 5.5 Discussion of stance-taking responses
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- How to do things with requests
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data and methodology
- 3. Actions implemented via requests and their fulfillment
- 3.1 A simple request
- 3.2 Doing more than just requesting
- 3.2.1 Implementing "more than" a request in first position
- 3.2.2 "More than" fulfilling a request in second position
- 3.2.3 "More than" appreciating a request's fulfillment in third position
- 4. Conclusions
- References
- On the grammatical form of requestsat the convenience store
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Requesting a product at the kiosk - the verbal design of the turn
- 3. Requesting a tobacco product with a noun phrase
- 4. Requesting a tobacco product with a clause
- 5. Moving in space as a meaning-making resource in action formation
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix. Symbols for glossing
- Requesting immediate action in the surgical operating room
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Requesting in the operating room
- 2.1 Surgery as a situated accomplisment
- 2.2 Data
- 3. Sequence organization
- 3.1 Adjacency pairs
- 3.2 Sequence-closing thirds
- 3.3 Orientation to the absence of response
- 3.4 Repair
- 3.5 Summary
- 4. Multimodal formats of directives: Resources mobilized
- 4.1 Linguistic resources
- 4.2 Gestural resources
- 5. Extended sequences
- 5.1 "coagulation"
- 5.2 "Take it closer"
- 5.3 Summary
- 6. Preparation of the sequence: The importance of the praxeological context
- 6.1 Camera assistant orients to the ongoing trajectory of dissection
- 6.2 Assistant holding pliers and graspers orients to the evolving tension of the tissues
- 6.3 "coag (.) coag (.) coag": Action-type sequence series and their projective potential
- 7. Series, post-expansions, and repairs
- 8. Conclusion
- Transcription conventions
- References
- When do people not use language to make requests?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- 2.1 Requests
- 2.2 Projectability and anticipation in activities
- 3. Data and method
- 4. Nonverbal forms of requesting
- 5. Nonverbal requests rely on the projectability of action within a joint activity
- 6. The verbal component of requests serves the recognition of non-projectable actions
- 7. A competing motivation for verbalising projectable requests: Securing immediate recipiency
- 8. Discussion
- References
- Key to interlinear glosses
- "Requests" and "offers" in orangutans and human infants
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data and method
- 3. Requests
- 4. Requests as courses of action
- 5. Offers
- 6. Request and offers: A sequential relationship
- 7. Requests and offers in human infants
- 8. Discussion
- References
- Index terms
- Index of names
