Enfield2022
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Enfield2022 |
| Author(s) | N. J. Enfield, Jack Sidnell |
| Title | Action and Accountability in Interaction |
| Editor(s) | Arnulf Deppermann, Michael Haugh |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Accountability |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year | 2022 |
| Language | English |
| City | Cambridge |
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| Pages | 279–296 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108673419.015 |
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| Book title | Action Ascription in Social Interaction |
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Abstract
What is the relation between words and action? How does a person decide, based on what someone is saying, what an appropriate response would be? We argue: (1) Every move combines independent semiotic features, to be interpreted under an assumption that social behaviour is goal-directed; (2) Responding to actions is not equivalent to describing them; (3) Describing actions invokes rights and duties for which people are explicitly accountable. We conclude that interaction does not involve a binning procedure in which the stream of conduct is sorted into discrete action types. Our argument is grounded in data from recordings of talk-in-interaction.
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