CouperKuhlen2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | CouperKuhlen2025 |
| Author(s) | Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Sandra A. Thompson |
| Title | ‘Idea-Suggestions’ in an interactional grammar: Sequential organization and grammatical formats |
| Editor(s) | Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen, Søren Sandager Sørensen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, suggestion, advice, recruitment, Idea-Suggestion, benefit, social action format, why don’t you, hypothetical conditional |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam |
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| Pages | 47–77 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/slsi.37.03cur |
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| Book title | Grammar in Action: Building Comprehensive Grammars of Talk-in-Interaction |
| Chapter | 3 |
Abstract
In this chapter, we explore the grammar of ‘Suggestions’ and the sequences they engender. ‘Suggestion’ is used here as a technical term to refer to a speaker forwarding an action to be performed by the recipient that will benefit the recipient. The data suggest several sub-types of Suggestion, the focus here being on the sub-type in which a speaker initiates a sequence by volunteering an idea for something that the other might do to their benefit, which we call ‘Idea-Suggestion’, or ‘I-Suggestion’. We discuss the formats that speakers of American English use to put forth these kinds of Suggestions, and argue that the tentativeness built into the work that I-Suggestions do reveals what participants orient to in the trajectory of the ensuing sequence. A final section explores how our findings might be captured in an interactional grammar of American English.
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