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 …

Someone's “deontic authority” is their right to determine others' future actions. It can be
acquiesced to or resisted. This article introduces, more systematically than before, the …

How are language, thought, and reality related? Interdisciplinary research on this question
over the past two decades has made significant progress. Most of the work has been Neo …

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 …

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 …

The classic version of the linguistic relativity principle, formulated by Boas and developed
especially in the work of Whorf, suggests that the particular lexicogrammatical patterns of a …

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 …

This paper uses conversation analysis (CA) to examine client resistance in Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy (CBT) sessions for clients with depression. Analysis focuses on clients' …