In Relationship Thinking, NJ Enfield outlines a framework for analyzing social interaction
and its linguistic, cultural, and cognitive underpinnings by focusing on human relationships …

The implementation and ascription of 'first actions' has until recently been an understudied
area within conversation analysis. Recently, exploratory studies in the domains of …

This article navigates the findings of conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, and
related multimodal studies to summarize what we know about the grammar-body interface. It …

In this introduction we outline some of the background to and evolution of the work on social
action and requesting, then introduce some of the key analytic themes in investigating …

When people do things with words, how do we know what they are doing? Many scholars
have assumed a category of things called actions:'requests','proposals','complaints','excuses' …

Building on a corpus of 70 hours of German driving lessons, this paper studies the use of
declaratives vs. imperatives for instruction. It shows how these linguistic resources are …

We compare the use of two formats for requesting an object in informal everyday interaction:
imperatives, common in our Polish data, and second-person polar questions, common in our …

A wealth of research has examined how different forms of language are used for requesting.
But language is not always necessary to make a request. Interaction rests for a good part on …

When taking a turn at talk, a speaker normally accomplishes a sequential action such as a
question, answer, complaint, or request. Sometimes, however, a turn at talk may accomplish …

This paper analyzes signs and written messages aimed at regulating people's behavior in
public spaces. Based on a collection of more than 700 verbal and pictographic signs, the …