TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Zinken, Jörg
A1  - Rossi, Giovanni
A1  - Reddy, Vasudevi
ED  - Taleghani-Nikazm, Carmen
ED  - Betz, Emma
ED  - Golato, Peter
T1  - Doing more than expected. Thanking recognizes another’s agency in providing assistance
T2  - Mobilizing Others. Grammar and lexis within larger activities
N2  - In informal interaction, speakers rarely thank a person who has complied with a request. Examining data from British English, German, Italian, Polish, and Telugu, we ask when speakers do thank after compliance. The results show that thanking treats the other’s assistance as going beyond what could be taken for granted in the circumstances. Coupled with the rareness of thanking after requests, this suggests that cooperation is to a great extent governed by expectations of helpfulness, which can be long-standing, or built over the course of a particular interaction. The higher frequency of thanking in some languages (such as English or Italian) suggests that cultures differ in the importance they place on recognizing the other’s agency in doing as requested.
T3  - Studies in language and social interaction - 33 
KW  - Kontrastive Pragmatik
KW  - agency
KW  - cooperation
KW  - courses of action
KW  - cultural diversity
KW  - expectation
KW  - gratitude
KW  - offers
KW  - recruitment
KW  - requests
KW  - thanking
KW  - Dank
KW  - Kooperation
KW  - Direktiv
KW  - Konversationsanalyse
KW  - Erwartung
Y1  - 2020
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-100937
SN  - 978-90-272-6158-8
SB  - 978-90-272-6158-8
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.33.10zin
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.33.10zin
SP  - 253
EP  - 278
PB  - Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -