The comparative study of social action: what you must and what you can do to align with a prior speaker
This article makes an empirical and a methodological contribution to the comparative study of action. The empirical contribution is a comparative study of three distinct types of action regularly accomplished with the turn format du meinst x (“you mean/think x”) in German: candidate understandings,...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Research on language and social interaction
Year: 2020, Volume: 53, Issue: 4, Pages: 443-462 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7973 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08351813.2020.1826764 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2020.1826764 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08351813.2020.1826764 
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| Author Notes: | Jörg Zinken |
| Summary: | This article makes an empirical and a methodological contribution to the comparative study of action. The empirical contribution is a comparative study of three distinct types of action regularly accomplished with the turn format du meinst x (“you mean/think x”) in German: candidate understandings, formulations of the other’s mind, and requests for a judgment. These empirical materials are the basis for a methodological exploration of different levels of researcher abstraction in the comparative study of action. Two levels are examined: the (coarser) level of conditionally relevant responses (what a response speaker must do to align with the action of the prior turn) and the (finer) level of “full alignment” (what a response speaker can do to align with the action of a prior turn). Both levels of abstraction provide empirically viable and analytically interesting descriptive concepts for the comparative study of action. Data are in German. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 24.10.2024 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1532-7973 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08351813.2020.1826764 |