The Comparative Study of Social Action: What You Must and What You Can Do to Align with a Prior Speaker
- 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.
Author: | Jörg ZinkenORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-101174 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2020.1826764 |
ISSN: | 1532-7973 |
Parent Title (English): | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Place of publication: | Abingdon-on-Thames |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2020 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2020/10/15 |
Publicationstate: | Ahead of Print |
Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
GND Keyword: | Konversationsanalyse; Meinungsäußerung; Sprachhandeln; Sprecherwechsel; Subjektivität |
Page Number: | 20 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
Open Access?: | ja |
Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Pragmalinguistik / Kommunikationsforschung |
Program areas: | P1: Interaktion |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |