Full 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.
Contents
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
