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 …

Reporting troubles can be used as a vehicle for accomplishing many different kinds of
actions. In some cases, troubles may be raised to engender practical courses of action—that …

Accounts—verbal explanations for conduct—are normally understood to do affiliative work
by mitigating or disavowing negative inferences generated by problematic or dispreferred …

In this article, I examine the communicative practice of mentioning a personal experience as
a vehicle for challenging a peer's perspective. I study this in the context of therapeutic …

Most qualitative research in organisations is based on interviews. Interview studies can
illuminate the experience of the people studied. However, interviewees retelling and …

This study examines the speech act of criticizing in online comments on the COVID-19
lockdown breaches in Jordan in 2020. Drawing on speech act theory and the face-saving …

Interest in anthropology and ethnography has been an ongoing feature of organizational
research and pedagogy; this book provides a key reference text that pulls together the …

The study aims at developing learning materials containing character education integrated
in teaching and learning Bahasa Jawa (Javanese language) at secondary schools in …

Compelling microanalytic studies of audio-visual recordings of political speeches have
shown that political orators share culturally recognizable rhetorical techniques to invite an …

Animasi wayang merupakan modifikasi tampilan pertunjukan wayang menjadi sebuah
media pembelajaran, khususnya untuk materi teks anekdot yang diunggah ke situs …