I use the term the embodied turn to mean the point when interest in the body became
established among researchers on language and social interaction, exploiting the greater …

In this article, we examine methods that participants use to resolve troubles in the realization
of practical courses of action. The concept of recruitment is developed to encompass the …

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English
speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show …

This article navigates the findings of conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, and
related multimodal studies to summarize what we know about the grammar-body interface. It …

In this introduction we outline some of the background to and evolution of the work on social
action and requesting, then introduce some of the key analytic themes in investigating …

This paper considers a recent and growing body of research into turn-initial objects, and
describes some of the difficulties associated with their analysis. It suggests that they …

How do support staff resolve the interactional dilemma of getting their clients to do things,
while respecting their independence? In a corpus of over 200 everyday requests made by …

Conversation Analysis (CA) is both an established research area and research methodology
in the social sciences (Atkinson and Heritage, 1984, Heritage, 1984, Levinson, 1983 …

A wealth of research has examined how different forms of language are used for requesting.
But language is not always necessary to make a request. Interaction rests for a good part on …

The paper discusses action sequences that concern the transfer of an object or service,
namely requests and responses to them. It focuses specifically on responses, describing …