Brokering co-participants’ volition in request and offer sequences
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Katariina Harjunpää
Abstract
This chapter examines multilingual interactions where bilingual participants engage in advancing mutual understanding between other participants by language brokering (e.g. Bolden 2012) requests and offers from Finnish to Brazilian Portuguese. Brokering turns involve either (i) declarative statements regarding the prior speaker’s volition towards the requested/offered matter or (ii) questions concerning the recipient’s volition. The use of these formats displays the broker’s intersubjective interpretation of locally relevant features of the action, such as the distribution of benefits and agency, and contingencies in its realization. The investigation of language brokering in this context also contributes to research on requests, offers and related social actions (e.g. Couper-Kuhlen 2014), action ascription (Levinson 2013; Deppermann & Haugh forthcoming), and on verbs expressing volition (Sacks 1992: 181; Schulze-Wenck 2005).
Abstract
This chapter examines multilingual interactions where bilingual participants engage in advancing mutual understanding between other participants by language brokering (e.g. Bolden 2012) requests and offers from Finnish to Brazilian Portuguese. Brokering turns involve either (i) declarative statements regarding the prior speaker’s volition towards the requested/offered matter or (ii) questions concerning the recipient’s volition. The use of these formats displays the broker’s intersubjective interpretation of locally relevant features of the action, such as the distribution of benefits and agency, and contingencies in its realization. The investigation of language brokering in this context also contributes to research on requests, offers and related social actions (e.g. Couper-Kuhlen 2014), action ascription (Levinson 2013; Deppermann & Haugh forthcoming), and on verbs expressing volition (Sacks 1992: 181; Schulze-Wenck 2005).
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Intersubjectivity in action 1
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Part I. How language codes and creates intersubjectivity
- Organizing the “we” in interaction 25
- Definitely indefinite 41
- Directive turn design and intersubjectivity 61
- On agency and affiliation in second assessments 81
- Mirror-like address practice in Arabic-medium classroom interaction 109
- Brokering co-participants’ volition in request and offer sequences 135
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Part II. Moving towards shared understanding
- Decision-making in salesperson–customer interaction 163
- Building an intersubjective understanding of the patient’s mental suffering 183
- Shared understandings of the human–nature relationship in encounters with small wildlife 201
- Extending sequences of other-initiated repair in Finnish conversation 231
- Co-presence during lapses 251
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Part III. Bodies and intersubjectivity
- Achieving the intersubjectivity of sensorial practices 279
- Emotion, psychophysiology, and intersubjectivity 303
- Movement synchrony as a topic of empirical social interaction research 329
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Part IV. Evolving intersubjectivity
- Learning to request in interaction 349
- How an improvised scene emerges in theatre rehearsal 373
- Interactional reciprocity in human–dog interaction 397
- Appendix. Transcription conventions and glossing symbols 429
- Index 435
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Intersubjectivity in action 1
-
Part I. How language codes and creates intersubjectivity
- Organizing the “we” in interaction 25
- Definitely indefinite 41
- Directive turn design and intersubjectivity 61
- On agency and affiliation in second assessments 81
- Mirror-like address practice in Arabic-medium classroom interaction 109
- Brokering co-participants’ volition in request and offer sequences 135
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Part II. Moving towards shared understanding
- Decision-making in salesperson–customer interaction 163
- Building an intersubjective understanding of the patient’s mental suffering 183
- Shared understandings of the human–nature relationship in encounters with small wildlife 201
- Extending sequences of other-initiated repair in Finnish conversation 231
- Co-presence during lapses 251
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Part III. Bodies and intersubjectivity
- Achieving the intersubjectivity of sensorial practices 279
- Emotion, psychophysiology, and intersubjectivity 303
- Movement synchrony as a topic of empirical social interaction research 329
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Part IV. Evolving intersubjectivity
- Learning to request in interaction 349
- How an improvised scene emerges in theatre rehearsal 373
- Interactional reciprocity in human–dog interaction 397
- Appendix. Transcription conventions and glossing symbols 429
- Index 435
