Action Ascription in Interaction

Frontmatter
	Contents
	Figures
	Tables
	Contributors
Introduction
	1 Action Ascription in Social Interaction (Deppermann & Haugh)
		1.1 Introduction: Action and Action Ascription
		1.2 Action Ascription as a Members’ Concern
		1.3 Approaches to Action Ascription
		1.4 Constituents and Resources of Action Ascription
		1.5 Action Ascription as Social Action
		1.6 Overview of the Volume
		REFERENCES
I Constituents of Action Ascription
	2 Temporal Organization and Procedure in Ascribing Action (Arundale)
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 The Temporal Organization of Adjacency, Nextness, and Progressivity
		2.3 The Temporal Organization of Interaction: A Procedural Perspective
		2.4 The Three-Position Organization of Next Adjacency and Action Ascription
		2.5 Assessing Nextness and Progressivity in Ascribing Action
		2.6 Conclusion: Third Position Utterances in Ascribing Action
		REFERENCES
	3 The Micro-Politics of Social Actions (Drew)
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 The ‘Value’ and ‘Dis-value’ of Actions
		3.3 Action Avoidance
		3.4 Disguising an Action
		3.5 ‘Mis’-attributions: Deniability, Defeasibility, and Disclaimers
		3.6 Conclusion
		REFERENCES
	4 Action Ascription, Accountability and Inference (Haugh)
		4.1 Introduction: Action Ascription as Social Action
		4.2 Accountability and the Three-Position Procedural Infrastructure of Action Ascription
		4.3 Action Ascription and Practical Reasoning
		4.4 Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		REFERENCES
	5 Attributing the Decision to Buy: Action Ascription, Local Ecology, and Multimodality in Shop Encounters (Mondada)
		5.1 Introduction
			5.1.1 Action Formation and Action Ascription
			5.1.2 The Phenomenon
			5.1.3 Data
			5.1.4 Ascribing Decision-Taking to the Customer
			5.1.5 Outline
		5.2 Customer’s Explicit Decision-Taking
			5.2.1 Tasting Occasions a Positive Assessment and a Decision to Buy
			5.2.2 Tasting Directly Engenders the Decision to Buy
		5.3 Seller Attributes Decision to Buy and Asks for Confirmation
		5.4 After Customer’s Positive Assessment, Seller Requests a Simple Confirmation and Proceeds to Cut
		5.5 Customer’s Simple “Yes” After Tasting
		5.6 Positive Assessments Understood as Decision-Taking
		5.7 Conclusion
		Note on Transcription Conventions
		REFERENCES
II Practices of Action Ascription
	6 Intention Ascriptions as a Means to Coordinate Own Actions with Others\' Actions (Deppermann & Kaiser)
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 The Debate over Intentions in Actions
		6.3 Intention Ascription as a Type of Formulations
		6.4 The Object of the Study: Intention Ascription with German du willst/Sie wollen
		6.5 Data and Distributions
		6.6 Four Practices of Intention Ascription
			6.6.1 Clarification of the Basic Action Type
			6.6.2 Clarification of Expected Response
			6.6.3 Clarification of Projected Action of S01
			6.6.4 Revealing Individual Projects, Strategies and Motives
		6.7 Summary and Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		REFERENCES
	7 Strategy Ascriptions in Public Mediation Talks (Helmer)
		7.1 Introduction
			7.1.1 Public Debate and Its Confrontational Characteristics
			7.1.2 Ascription of Strategies and Intentions as a Discursive Practice
			7.1.3 Strategies and Strategy Ascriptions in Political Debates
		7.2 Data
		7.3 Strategy Ascriptions in the “Stuttgart 21” Mediation
			7.3.1 Exposing a Rhetorical Strategy
			7.3.2 Exposing the Use of False Premises
			7.3.3 Exposing the Telling of a Half-Truth
		7.4 Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		REFERENCES
	8 Action Ascription and Deonticity in Everyday Advice-Giving Sequences (Couper-Kuhlen & Thompson)
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 Second Position: To Advise or Not to Advise
		8.3 Third Position: How to Deal with Advice
			8.3.1 Linguistic Formats for Advising in English
			8.3.2 Responses to Advice-Giving Formats
		8.4 Discussion: Advice-Giving and Action Ascription
		Acknowledgments
		REFERENCES
	9 \"How about Eggs?\" Action Ascription in the Family Decision-Making Process While Grocery Shopping at a Supermarket (Hiramoto & Hayashi)
		9.1 Introduction
		9.2 Background
		9.3 Data
		9.4 Analysis
			9.4.1 Type 1: [NP without Predicate]
			9.4.2 Division of Labor Concerning Purchase Decision-Making
			9.4.3 Type 2: [NP + Predicate]
		9.5 Discussion
		9.6 Conclusions
		Acknowledgments
		Notes on Abbreviations
		REFERENCES
	10 Action Ascription and Action Assessment: Ya-Suffixed Answers to Questions in Mandarin Conversation (Wu & Yu)
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 When Inquiries Are Inappropriate
		10.3 Ya in Mandarin
		10.4 Data and Research Method
		10.5 TCU-End Particle Ya in Answers to Questioning: A Practice to Assess the Questioning as Inapposite
			10.5.1 Treating Sought-for Information as Already Known
			10.5.2 Treating a Question as Challenging the Recipient’s Morality
			10.5.3 Deviant Case of the TCU-End Ya
		10.6 Discussion
		10.7 Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes on Glossing Conventions
		REFERENCES
	11 Actions and Identities in Emergency Calls: The Case of Thanking (Koole & van Burgsteden)
		11.1 Introduction
		11.2 Data and Method
		11.3 Action Ascription and Identities in Emergency Calls
		11.4 Analysis
			11.4.1 Call-Taker’s Locally Occasioned Thanking
			11.4.2 Treating Third-Party Callers as Beneficiaries
			11.4.3 Thanking a Beneficiary
		11.5 Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		REFERENCES
III Revisiting Action Ascription
	12 Action and Accountability in Interaction (Enfield & Sidnell)
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 The Many Bits of Conduct That Make Up Actions
		12.3 To Name an Action Is to Thematize Participants’ Accountability
		12.4 Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		REFERENCES
	13 The Multiple Accountabilities of Action (Heritage)
		13.1 Introduction
		13.2 The DNA of Accountability
		13.3 Bins and Their Discontents
		13.4 Bottom-Up Resources
			13.4.1 Grammar
			13.4.2 Lexicon
			13.4.3 Beyond Language: Prosody and Gaze
			13.4.4 Multiple Actions within the Utterance
		13.5 Top-Down Resources
			13.5.1 Sequence
			13.5.2 Activities
			13.5.3 Institutions
			13.5.4 Personal Statuses and Rights
		13.6 Beyond Ascription and beyond the Adjacency Pair
		13.7 Discussion
		13.8 Conclusion
		REFERENCES
Appendix A: Transcription Conventions (CA)
Appendix B: Transcription Conventions (GAT2)
Appendix C: Conventions for Multimodal Transcription
Index