Gubina2021
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Alexandra Gubina |
| Title | Availability, Grammar, and Action Formation: On Simple and Modal Interrogative Request Formats in Spoken German |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Availability, Request, Action formation, Interactional project, Contingencies, Benefit, Conversation analysis, Interactional linguistics |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Gesprächsforschung - Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion |
| Volume | 2021 |
| Number | 22 |
| Pages | 272-303 |
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Abstract
This study builds on a large body of work on the use of linguistic forms for requests in social interaction. Using Conversation Analysis / Interactional Linguistics, this study explores the use of two recurrent linguistic formats for requesting in spoken German – simple interrogatives ('do you do ..?') and kannst du VP? ('can you do..?') interrogatives. Based on a corpus of video-recorded, naturally occurring data of mundane data, this study demonstrates one of the interactional factors that is relevant for the choice between alternative interrogative request formats in spoken German – recipient's embodied availability before and during the request initiation. It is shown that simple interrogatives are used to request an action from a recipient who is either available or involved in their own project, which, however, does not have to be suspended or interrupted for the compliance with the request. In contrast, kannst du VP? interrogatives occur in environments in which the recipient is already engaged in a project that must be suspended in order to grant the request.
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