Haugh2022
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Haugh2022 |
| Author(s) | Michael Haugh |
| Title | Action Ascription, Accountability and Inference |
| Editor(s) | Arnulf Deppermann, Michael Haugh |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Action Ascription, Accountability, Inference |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year | 2022 |
| Language | English |
| City | Cambridge |
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| Pages | 81–104 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108673419.005 |
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| Book title | Action Ascription in Social Interaction |
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Abstract
It is increasingly recognised that action ascription is not just a matter of inference, but is a form of social action in its own right. This chapter explores two key implications of this finding. First, in treating action ascription as a social action we have formal grounds for the claim that analyses of action ascription must necessarily include inspection of third positioned actions, as ascribing action is an account-able action in its own right. Second, we have procedural grounds for examining the suppression or avoidance of inferences about the action(s) in question by participants. A collection of instances of ‘offers’ that are occasioned or ‘touched off’ by some prior action, and are variously designed to be heard as such, are analysed in the course of this chapter to provide an empirical anchor for these two theoretical claims.
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