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Requesting Responsibility - The Morality of Grammar in Polish and English Family Interaction (Hardcover)
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Requesting Responsibility - The Morality of Grammar in Polish and English Family Interaction (Hardcover)
Series: Foundations of Human Interaction
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This book examines requests for action in everyday contexts by
analyzing natural video-recorded data of everyday interaction in
British English and Polish families. Requests for carrying out
little jobs-passing some object or fetching items from the next
room -are pervasively relevant in contexts such as preparing and
consuming food, caring for and playing with children. Requests
therefore provide a useful window onto general qualities of human
sociality as well as on aspects of cultural diversity. Joerg Zinken
describes features of interactional context that people across
cultures might be sensitive to in designing a request. In
particular, the other person's locally observable commitment to a
shared task emerges as a quality of context that systematically
enters into the way a speaker builds a request. He then analyses
the relationship between diversity across the grammatical resources
of languages, and diversity in the action affordances provided by
these structures. Focusing on grammatical structures that exist in
Polish but not in English (impersonal deontic statements, a certain
type of double imperative, and a grammaticalized distinction
between perfective and imperfective verbal aspect), the analyses
show that language-specific turn formats can index and project
social orientations within the on-going interaction in
culture-specific ways. By examining social actions at a fine level
of grain, the book points a way toward an understanding of cultural
diversity that avoids the pitfalls of cultural relativism.
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