TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Zinken, Jörg T1 - The comparative study of social action: What you must and what you can do to align with a prior speaker JF - Research on language and social interaction N2 - 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. KW - Sprecherwechsel KW - Konversationsanalyse KW - Sprachhandeln KW - Meinungsäußerung KW - Subjektivität Y1 - 2020 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-115450 SN - 1532-7973 SS - 1532-7973 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2020.1826764 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2020.1826764 N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in "Research on Language and Social Interaction" on 12 Oct 2020, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2020.1826764 . VL - 53 IS - 4 SP - 443 EP - 462 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon-on-Thames ER -