The comparative study of social action

• Verfasst von: Zinken, Jörg [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The comparative study of social action
• Titelzusatz: what you must and what you can do to align with a prior speaker
• Verf.angabe: Jörg Zinken
• Jahr: 2020
• Umfang: 20 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 24.10.2024
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Research on language and social interaction
• Ort Quelle: New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 1987
• Jahr Quelle: 2020
• Band/Heft Quelle: 53(2020), 4, Seite 443-462
• ISSN Quelle: 1532-7973
• DOI: doi:10.1080/08351813.2020.1826764
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1906771707

Abstract

This article makes an empirical and a methodological contribution to the comparative study of action. The empirical contribution is a comparative study of three distinct types of action regularly accomplished with the turn format du meinst x (“you mean/think x”) in German: candidate understandings, formulations of the other’s mind, and requests for a judgment. These empirical materials are the basis for a methodological exploration of different levels of researcher abstraction in the comparative study of action. Two levels are examined: the (coarser) level of conditionally relevant responses (what a response speaker must do to align with the action of the prior turn) and the (finer) level of “full alignment” (what a response speaker can do to align with the action of a prior turn). Both levels of abstraction provide empirically viable and analytically interesting descriptive concepts for the comparative study of action. Data are in German.