Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgement vii
4. Glossary of transcription conventions ix
5. Requesting – from speech act to recruitment 1
6. Human agency and the infrastructure for requests 35
7. Benefactors and beneficiaries 55
8. The putative preference for offers over requests 87
9. On divisions of labor in request and offer environments 115
10. The social and moral work of modal constructions in granting remote requests 145
11. Two request forms of four year olds 171
12. Orchestrating directive trajectories in communicative projects in family interaction 185
13. How to do things with requests 215
14. On the grammatical form of requests at the convenience store 243
15. Requesting immediate action in the surgical operating room 269
16. When do people not use language to make requests? 303
17. “Requests” and “offers” in orangutans and human infants 335
18. Subject Index 365
19. Name Index 369