Fox , B A & Heinemann , T 2017 , ' Issues in Action Formation : Requests and the Problem with x ' , Open Linguistics , vol. 3 , no. 1 , pp. 31-64 . https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2017-0003
Title: | Issues in Action Formation : Requests and the Problem with x |
Author: | Fox, Barbara A.; Heinemann, Trine |
Contributor organization: | Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies |
Date: | 2017-01 |
Language: | eng |
Number of pages: | 34 |
Belongs to series: | Open Linguistics |
ISSN: | 2300-9969 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2017-0003 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/299863 |
Abstract: | In previous interactional studies of formats for utterances doing requests, attention has been given to the initial verb (such as can/could or wonder) and possibly the subject (especially I vs you). The current study examines the main types of grammatical variation found in what we call the " x component," that is the segment after the initial verb and subject. We examine two types of requests: those with can you x and those with wonder x, and we find that variations in the x component in these requests are associated with variations in the unfolding development of the request sequences. We thus suggest that the x component is crucial to the interactional work accomplished by the requesting utterance. |
Subject: |
Conversation Analysis
Requests Action formation BRITISH ENGLISH POLISH DIRECTIVES SEQUENCES CULTURES SPEECH FORMS 6121 Languages |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
Rights: | cc_by_nc_nd |
Usage restriction: | openAccess |
Self-archived version: | publishedVersion |
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