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|Title=Recruiting assistance and collaboration: a West-African corpus study
 
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|Editor(s)=Simeon Floyd; Giovanni Rossi; N. J. Enfield;
 
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|Abstract=Doing things for and with others is one of the foundations of human social life. This chapter studies a systematic collection of 207 recruitments of assistance and collaboration from a video corpus of everyday conversations in Siwu, a Kwa language of Ghana. A range of social action formats and semiotic resources reveals how language is adapted to the interactional challenges posed by recruitment. While many of the formats bear a language-specific signature, their sequential and interactional properties show important commonalities across languages. Two tentative findings are put forward for further cross-linguistic examination: a "rule of three" that may play a role in the organization of successive response pursuits, and a striking commonality in animal-oriented recruitments across languages that may be explained by convergent cultural evolution. The Siwu recruitment system emerges as one instance of a sophisticated machinery for organizing collaborative action that transcends language and culture.
 
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Dingemanse2020a
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Dingemanse2020a
Author(s) Mark Dingemanse
Title Recruiting assistance and collaboration: a West-African corpus study
Editor(s) Simeon Floyd, Giovanni Rossi, N. J. Enfield
Tag(s) EMCA
Publisher Language Science Press
Year 2020
Language English
City Berlin
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Pages 369–421
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DOI 10.5281/zenodo.4018388
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Series Diversity Linguistics
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Book title Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments
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Abstract

Doing things for and with others is one of the foundations of human social life. This chapter studies a systematic collection of 207 recruitments of assistance and collaboration from a video corpus of everyday conversations in Siwu, a Kwa language of Ghana. A range of social action formats and semiotic resources reveals how language is adapted to the interactional challenges posed by recruitment. While many of the formats bear a language-specific signature, their sequential and interactional properties show important commonalities across languages. Two tentative findings are put forward for further cross-linguistic examination: a "rule of three" that may play a role in the organization of successive response pursuits, and a striking commonality in animal-oriented recruitments across languages that may be explained by convergent cultural evolution. The Siwu recruitment system emerges as one instance of a sophisticated machinery for organizing collaborative action that transcends language and culture.

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