36.2503, Books: Encounters at the Counter: Fox, Mondada and Sorjonen (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 26-Aug-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Encounters at the Counter: Fox, Mondada and Sorjonen (eds.) (2025)


Title: Encounters at the Counter
Subtitle: The Organization of Shop Interactions
Series Title: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/encounters-counter-organization-shop-interactions?format=PB&isbn=9781009216029

Editor(s): Barbara Fox, Lorenza Mondada and Marja-Leena Sorjonen

Paperback ISBN:  9781009216029 Pages:  295 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback ISBN:  9781009216029 Pages:  295 Price: Europe EURO 26.83
Paperback ISBN:  9781009216029 Pages:  295 Price: U.S. $ 29.99

Abstract:

Bringing together a diverse collection of studies from a team of
international scholars, this pioneering volume focuses on interactions
in shops, exploring the dynamics of conversation between sellers and
customers. Beginning with the emergence of a 'need' for a product
before the request to a seller is actually made, all the way through
to the payment phase, it explores the rich and deeply methodical
practices employed by customers and sellers as they go about the
apparently mundane work of buying and selling small items. It looks at
how seller and customer interact both verbally, and by means of
manipulating the material objects involved, across a range of
different kinds of purchase. Providing new insights into multimodal
human interaction and the organisation of the commercial activity, it
aims to bring about a new understanding of the fundamental ways in
which economic value, possession and ownership is achieved.

Written In: English (eng)



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