Requesting responsibility
Subtitle: the morality of grammar in Polish and English family interaction
By: Jörg Zinken
Series: Foundations of Human Interaction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780190210724; 9780190210731; 9780190210748
Subjects: Communication in families; Comparative Grammar; Topic and comment; English language; Interpersonal communication; Conversation analysis; English; Polish; Polish language
Description: This work analyses requests for action on the basis of natural video-recorded data of everyday interaction in British English and Polish families. Jorg Zinken describes in his analyses the features of interactional context that people across cultures might be sensitive to in designing a request, as well as aspects of cultural diversity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.