@article{Zinken2023,
  author    = {J{\"o}rg Zinken},
  title     = {The comparative study of social action: What you must and what you can do to align with a prior speaker},
  series   = {Research on language and social interaction},
  volume    = {53},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Routledge},
  address   = {Abingdon-on-Thames},
  issn      = {1532-7973},
  doi       = {10.1080/08351813.2020.1826764},
  url       = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-115450},
  pages     = {443 -- 462},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {This article makes an empirical and a methodological contribution to the comparative study of action. The empirical contribution is a comparative study of three distinct types of action regularly accomplished with the turn format du meinst x (“you mean/think x”) in German: candidate understandings, formulations of the other’s mind, and requests for a judgment. These empirical materials are the basis for a methodological exploration of different levels of researcher abstraction in the comparative study of action. Two levels are examined: the (coarser) level of conditionally relevant responses (what a response speaker must do to align with the action of the prior turn) and the (finer) level of “full alignment” (what a response speaker can do to align with the action of a prior turn). Both levels of abstraction provide empirically viable and analytically interesting descriptive concepts for the comparative study of action. Data are in German.},
  language  = {en}
}