27.4174, Books: Requesting Responsibility: Zinken
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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:09:33
From: Carolyn Napolitano [Carolyn.Napolitano at oup.com]
Subject: Requesting Responsibility: Zinken
Title: Requesting Responsibility
Subtitle: The Morality of Grammar in Polish and English Family Interaction
Series Title: Foundations of Human Interaction
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/requesting-responsibility-9780190210724
Author: Jörg Zinken
Hardback: ISBN: 9780190210724 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 99
Abstract:
This book examines requests for action in everyday contexts by analyzing
natural video-recorded data of everyday interaction in British English and
Polish families. Requests for carrying out little jobs-passing some object or
fetching items from the next room -are pervasively relevant in contexts such
as preparing and consuming food, caring for and playing with children.
Requests therefore provide a useful window onto general qualities of human
sociality as well as on aspects of cultural diversity. Jörg Zinken describes
features of interactional context that people across cultures might be
sensitive to in designing a request. In particular, the other person's locally
observable commitment to a shared task emerges as a quality of context that
systematically enters into the way a speaker builds a request. He then
analyses the relationship between diversity across the grammatical resources
of languages, and diversity in the action affordances provided by these
structures. Focusing on grammatical structures that exist in Polish but not in
English (impersonal deontic statements, a certain type of double imperative,
and a grammaticalized distinction between perfective and imperfective verbal
aspect), the analyses show that language-specific turn formats can index and
project social orientations within the on-going interaction in
culture-specific ways. By examining social actions at a fine level of grain,
the book points a way toward an understanding of cultural diversity that
avoids the pitfalls of cultural relativism.
Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Polish (pol)
Written In: English (eng)
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