People across the world make requests every day. We constantly rely on others to get by in
the small and big practicalities of everyday life, be it getting the salt, moving a sofa, or …

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 …

When making requests, speakers need to select from a range of alternative forms available
to them. In a corpus of naturally occurring Italian interaction, the two most common formats …

This special issue of the Journal of Pragmatics concerns the activity of inviting and
responding to invitations in authentic telephone calls in six different languages. Using …

Among the strategies used by people to request others to do things, there is a particular
family defined as pre-requests. The typical function of a pre-request is to check whether …

Requesting and responding in Italian and English service encounters Page 309 Ruey Brodine
REQUESTING AND RESPONDING IN ITALIAN AND ENGLISH SERVICE ENCOUNTERS 0 …

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 …

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 …

When taking a turn at talk, a speaker normally accomplishes a sequential action such as a
question, answer, complaint, or request. Sometimes, however, a turn at talk may accomplish …

This paper engages with the concept of off-record requests (Brown and Levinson, 1987),
often referred to as hints and viewed as a form of implicature in politeness research. It …