Getting others to do things : A pragmatic typology of recruitments
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Getting others to do things : A pragmatic typology of recruitments

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Getting others to do things : A pragmatic typology of recruitments

About this book

Getting others to do things is a central part of social interaction in any human society. Language is our main tool for this purpose. In this book, we show that sequences of interaction in which one person's behaviour solicits or occasions another's assistance or collaboration share common structural properties that provide a basis for the systematic comparison of this domain across languages. The goal of this comparison is to uncover similarities and differences in how language and other conduct are used in carrying out social action around the world, including different kinds of requests, orders, suggestions, and other actions brought together under the rubric of recruitment.

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Yes, you can access Getting others to do things : A pragmatic typology of recruitments by N. J. Enfield, Giovanni Rossi, Simeon Floyd in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. 1 Recruitments and pragmatic typology Giovanni Rossi, Simeon Floyd & N. J. Enfield
  3. 2 A coding scheme for recruitment sequences in interaction Simeon Floyd, Giovanni Rossi & N. J. Enfield
  4. 3 Getting others to do things in the Cha’palaa language of Ecuador Simeon Floyd
  5. 4 Recruitment in English: A quantitative study Kobin H. Kendrick
  6. 5 The recruitment system in Italian Giovanni Rossi
  7. 6 Recruitments in Lao N. J. Enfield
  8. 7 Recruitments in Murrinhpatha and the preference organization of their possible responses Joe Blythe
  9. 8 Recruiting assistance and collaboration in Polish Jörg Zinken
  10. 9 Recruiting assistance and collaboration in Russian Julija Baranova
  11. 10 Recruiting assistance and collaboration: A West-African corpus study Mark Dingemanse
  12. Index