TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Deppermann, Arnulf
ED  - Haugh, Michael
ED  - Kádár, Dániel Z.
ED  - Terkourafi, Marina
T1  - Social actions
T2  - The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
N2  - Social actions are recipient-designed actions that occur in the context of interaction sequences. This chapter focuses on sources and practices for the formation and ascription of social actions. While linguists stress the relevance of linguistic social action formats, conversation analysts highlight the relevance of the sequential position of an action, and sociolinguists point to the influence of social identities for action-formation and -ascription. The combination of these three approaches helps us to solve the analytic problem of indirectness, which, however, only rarely becomes a problem for the participants in an interaction themselves. Social properties which recurrently apply when using verbal and bodily resources of action-formation, i.e. the social actions themselves, inferred meanings, projected next actions, the participation framework, the activity type, speaker’s stance, participants’ identities, etc. lead to stable pragmatic connotations of those forms, i.e. action-meanings, which become idiomatic and part of our common-sense competence. Still, social actions are multi-layered and can be ambiguous at times. Therefore, their meaning can be open for negotiation. Intersubjectivity of action ascription is ultimately secured neither by conventions nor by speaker’s intentions, but is accomplished by their treatment in subsequent discourse.
T3  - Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics - - 
KW  - speech acts
KW  - recipient design
KW  - action formation
KW  - action ascription
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - Soziales Handeln
KW  - Interaktion
KW  - Konversationsanalyse
KW  - Soziolinguistik
KW  - Soziale Identität
KW  - Sprechakt
Y1  - 2021
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-104456
SN  - 978-1-108-95410-5
SB  - 978-1-108-95410-5
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108954105.006
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108954105.006
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht frei zugänglich.  / Due to copyright reasons the full-text of the article is not freely accessible.
SP  - 69
EP  - 94
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -