This article reviews arguments that, in the process of action formation and ascription, the
relative status of the participants with respect to a projected action can adjust or trump the …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Transcribing for Social Research Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded
SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a …

This article considers the role of grammatical form in the construction of social action,
focusing on turns that either assert or request information. It is argued that the epistemic …

Simmel (1969: 358) noted that “the totality of social relations of human beings, their self-
assertions and self-abnegation, their intimacies and estrangements, would be changed in …

When making requests, speakers need to select from a range of alternative forms available
to them. In a corpus of naturally occurring Italian interaction, the two most common formats …

In a conversation, recognising the speaker's social action (eg, a request) early may help the
potential following speakers understand the intended message quickly, and plan a timely …

This paper focuses on sequences in which participants show one another a personal object
in video-mediated communication. First, it brings some order into the diversity of showing …

People across the world make requests every day. We constantly rely on others to get by in
the small and big practicalities of everyday life, be it getting the salt, moving a sofa, or …

This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of
sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins …

In this paper, we present an embodiment perspective on viewpoint by exploring the role of
eye gaze in face-to-face conversation, in relation to and interaction with other expressive …