Golato2020

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Golato2020
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Golato2020
Author(s) Peter Golato
Title Recruitments in French: Declarative statements and accompanying actions which result in offers of assistance
Editor(s) Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Emma Betz, Peter Golato
Tag(s) EMCA, French, Requests, First person declarative, Embodiment, Cooking, Mobilizing others, Announcements, Courses of action, Recruitment
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2020
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 83-114
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DOI 10.1075/slsi.33.04gol
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Howpublished
Book title Mobilizing Others: Grammar and Lexis within Larger Activities
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Abstract

This chapter analyzes first-person singular declarative statements and their accompanying actions in French cooking shows. These ‘what I’m doing’ action combinations (Frick 2017) include lexical verbs having to do with object seizing/manipulation and ambulatory movement in either the futur proche (the French periphrastic future) or the simple present tense. The discussion shows that these turns mobilize others. Specifically, they result in the recruitment (Kendrick and Drew 2016) of coparticipants to assist the speaker in some way. The discussion focuses on the interplay between grammatical form, embodiment, setting, and interactional achievement. It shows that ‘what I’m doing’ action combinations not only mobilize the hosts of the show, but may also mobilize non-addressable third parties such as camera operators.

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