Action Ascription in Interaction

Frontmatter
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Introduction
1 Action Ascription in Social Interaction (Deppermann & Haugh)
1.1 Introduction: Action and Action Ascription
1.2 Action Ascription as a Members’ Concern
1.3 Approaches to Action Ascription
1.4 Constituents and Resources of Action Ascription
1.5 Action Ascription as Social Action
1.6 Overview of the Volume
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I Constituents of Action Ascription
2 Temporal Organization and Procedure in Ascribing Action (Arundale)
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Temporal Organization of Adjacency, Nextness, and Progressivity
2.3 The Temporal Organization of Interaction: A Procedural Perspective
2.4 The Three-Position Organization of Next Adjacency and Action Ascription
2.5 Assessing Nextness and Progressivity in Ascribing Action
2.6 Conclusion: Third Position Utterances in Ascribing Action
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3 The Micro-Politics of Social Actions (Drew)
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The ‘Value’ and ‘Dis-value’ of Actions
3.3 Action Avoidance
3.4 Disguising an Action
3.5 ‘Mis’-attributions: Deniability, Defeasibility, and Disclaimers
3.6 Conclusion
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4 Action Ascription, Accountability and Inference (Haugh)
4.1 Introduction: Action Ascription as Social Action
4.2 Accountability and the Three-Position Procedural Infrastructure of Action Ascription
4.3 Action Ascription and Practical Reasoning
4.4 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
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5 Attributing the Decision to Buy: Action Ascription, Local Ecology, and Multimodality in Shop Encounters (Mondada)
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 Action Formation and Action Ascription
5.1.2 The Phenomenon
5.1.3 Data
5.1.4 Ascribing Decision-Taking to the Customer
5.1.5 Outline
5.2 Customer’s Explicit Decision-Taking
5.2.1 Tasting Occasions a Positive Assessment and a Decision to Buy
5.2.2 Tasting Directly Engenders the Decision to Buy
5.3 Seller Attributes Decision to Buy and Asks for Confirmation
5.4 After Customer’s Positive Assessment, Seller Requests a Simple Confirmation and Proceeds to Cut
5.5 Customer’s Simple “Yes” After Tasting
5.6 Positive Assessments Understood as Decision-Taking
5.7 Conclusion
Note on Transcription Conventions
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II Practices of Action Ascription
6 Intention Ascriptions as a Means to Coordinate Own Actions with Others' Actions (Deppermann & Kaiser)
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Debate over Intentions in Actions
6.3 Intention Ascription as a Type of Formulations
6.4 The Object of the Study: Intention Ascription with German du willst/Sie wollen
6.5 Data and Distributions
6.6 Four Practices of Intention Ascription
6.6.1 Clarification of the Basic Action Type
6.6.2 Clarification of Expected Response
6.6.3 Clarification of Projected Action of S01
6.6.4 Revealing Individual Projects, Strategies and Motives
6.7 Summary and Conclusion
Acknowledgments
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7 Strategy Ascriptions in Public Mediation Talks (Helmer)
7.1 Introduction
7.1.1 Public Debate and Its Confrontational Characteristics
7.1.2 Ascription of Strategies and Intentions as a Discursive Practice
7.1.3 Strategies and Strategy Ascriptions in Political Debates
7.2 Data
7.3 Strategy Ascriptions in the “Stuttgart 21” Mediation
7.3.1 Exposing a Rhetorical Strategy
7.3.2 Exposing the Use of False Premises
7.3.3 Exposing the Telling of a Half-Truth
7.4 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
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8 Action Ascription and Deonticity in Everyday Advice-Giving Sequences (Couper-Kuhlen & Thompson)
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Second Position: To Advise or Not to Advise
8.3 Third Position: How to Deal with Advice
8.3.1 Linguistic Formats for Advising in English
8.3.2 Responses to Advice-Giving Formats
8.4 Discussion: Advice-Giving and Action Ascription
Acknowledgments
REFERENCES
9 "How about Eggs?" Action Ascription in the Family Decision-Making Process While Grocery Shopping at a Supermarket (Hiramoto & Hayashi)
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Background
9.3 Data
9.4 Analysis
9.4.1 Type 1: [NP without Predicate]
9.4.2 Division of Labor Concerning Purchase Decision-Making
9.4.3 Type 2: [NP + Predicate]
9.5 Discussion
9.6 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Notes on Abbreviations
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10 Action Ascription and Action Assessment: Ya-Suffixed Answers to Questions in Mandarin Conversation (Wu & Yu)
10.1 Introduction
10.2 When Inquiries Are Inappropriate
10.3 Ya in Mandarin
10.4 Data and Research Method
10.5 TCU-End Particle Ya in Answers to Questioning: A Practice to Assess the Questioning as Inapposite
10.5.1 Treating Sought-for Information as Already Known
10.5.2 Treating a Question as Challenging the Recipient’s Morality
10.5.3 Deviant Case of the TCU-End Ya
10.6 Discussion
10.7 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes on Glossing Conventions
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11 Actions and Identities in Emergency Calls: The Case of Thanking (Koole & van Burgsteden)
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Data and Method
11.3 Action Ascription and Identities in Emergency Calls
11.4 Analysis
11.4.1 Call-Taker’s Locally Occasioned Thanking
11.4.2 Treating Third-Party Callers as Beneficiaries
11.4.3 Thanking a Beneficiary
11.5 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
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III Revisiting Action Ascription
12 Action and Accountability in Interaction (Enfield & Sidnell)
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The Many Bits of Conduct That Make Up Actions
12.3 To Name an Action Is to Thematize Participants’ Accountability
12.4 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
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13 The Multiple Accountabilities of Action (Heritage)
13.1 Introduction
13.2 The DNA of Accountability
13.3 Bins and Their Discontents
13.4 Bottom-Up Resources
13.4.1 Grammar
13.4.2 Lexicon
13.4.3 Beyond Language: Prosody and Gaze
13.4.4 Multiple Actions within the Utterance
13.5 Top-Down Resources
13.5.1 Sequence
13.5.2 Activities
13.5.3 Institutions
13.5.4 Personal Statuses and Rights
13.6 Beyond Ascription and beyond the Adjacency Pair
13.7 Discussion
13.8 Conclusion
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Appendix A: Transcription Conventions (CA)
Appendix B: Transcription Conventions (GAT2)
Appendix C: Conventions for Multimodal Transcription
Index