Gonzalez-Martinez2026
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Gonzalez-Martinez2026 |
| Author(s) | Esther González-Martínez, Angeliki Balantani |
| Title | The “I have (someone)” method: Involving a hospital coworker in the matter at hand |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation analysis, Recruitments, Hospital Interaction |
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| Year | 2026 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 58 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 337-352 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/08351813.2025.2567819 |
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Abstract
This article focuses on J’ai (quelqu’un) statements, “I have (someone),” in French, through which speakers convey that they are attending to a third party requiring their attention. The speaker produces the statement while transitioning from the interaction’s opening to the business at hand. The statement initiates the first turn-at-talk of a recruiting sequence oriented to enlisting the recipient in new action. In the same turn-at-talk, the speaker produces the initial recruiting move, for instance, a request. We examine the focal statement in relation to the recruiting move as a preliminary statement in an independent clause, the frame of a recruiting declarative utterance, and the beginning of an extended recruiting telling. The article furthers the study of initial recruiting moves and preliminaries to them—namely, providing background information on contributing circumstances. The data are telephone calls and corridor interactions between coworkers, recorded in French, at two acute-care hospitals in Switzerland.
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