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Zusatztext Requesting Responsibility is a very well-written book that provides highly valuable insights into the cross-linguistic and interactional aspects of the variety of social actions belonging to the category of requesting. Informationen zum Autor Jörg Zinken is Research Fellow at Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim. After completing a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), he worked as a Senior Lecturer, then Reader in Language and Communication, in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth (UK) before joining the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim in 2014. Klappentext This book analyses requests for action on the basis of natural video-recorded data of everyday interaction in British English and Polish families. J¿rg Zinken describes in his analyses the features of interactional context that people across cultures might be sensitive to in designing a request, as well as aspects of cultural diversity. Zusammenfassung This book analyses requests for action on the basis of natural video-recorded data of everyday interaction in British English and Polish families. Jörg Zinken describes in his analyses the features of interactional context that people across cultures might be sensitive to in designing a request, as well as aspects of cultural diversity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface I. Language and the morality of requesting 1. Studying language and mind in action 2. Requests, responsiveness, and responsibility II. Context, grammar and action formation 3. Nudging and appealing: Two imperative actions for requesting 4. The comparability of actions across languages 5. Two forms of responsibility: Engagement and assistance III. Language-specific grammar for culture-specific actions 6. Building occasions for another's initiative: The impersonal deontic declarative trzeba x ( "it is necessary to x ") 7. Calling another to social reason: The double imperative we?-V2 ( "take-V2 ") 8. Directing animation of pre-authored actions: Imperatives in imperfective aspect IV Requesting, action formation, and the reality of culture ...
