29.3244, Books: The Interactional Accomplishment of Action: Seuren

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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:27:02
From: Karijn Hootsen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The Interactional Accomplishment of Action: Seuren

 


Title: The Interactional Accomplishment of Action 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-interactional-accomplishment-of-action 


Author: Lucas Seuren

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932762 Pages: 270 Price: Europe EURO 34.00


Abstract:

Conversation is first and foremost about action; people don’t just talk, they
do things like greeting, offering, and inviting. Understanding how speakers
use the grammar of their language to implement action is a problem that has
attracted attention from scholars in linguistics, sociology, anthropology, and
philosophy for decades, but a satisfactory explanation still eludes us. This
dissertation sheds light on this problem by carefully analyzing how
participants grammatically design a select number of specific social actions.

The main finding is that in the study of social interaction analyzing what
people do, and when and where they do it, should take priority over analyzing
how they do it. Any turn in conversation is principally understood and
designed to be understood by its position in the conversation, particularly
the immediate prior turn. This means that the design of a turn is constrained
by the local exigencies of the interaction, and thus that there is no direct
path from form to function. That is not to say that language is not used to
implement action and thereby project a certain type of response, but
linguistic design is subordinate to the sequential environment.

The foundational work in conversation analysis showed that linguistic
structure makes smooth turn-taking possible: by enacting conventionalized
structures speakers can project when their turn will come to completion. This
dissertation suggests that action might work in a similar way. By taking into
account the sequential environment participants can project what will come
next; grammar supports this projection thereby facilitating action ascription.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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