Anna Lindström

List of John Benjamins publications for which Anna Lindström plays a role.

Conversation analytic research on turn-initial particles has by and large examined turn-initial items that are language (or language family) specific such as the English well, the Finnish niin, the French voilà, and the German naja. This chapter by contrast, explores the turn-initial use of a word… read more
Lindström, Anna 2017 Accepting remote proposalsEnabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff, Raymond, Geoffrey, Gene H. Lerner and John Heritage (eds.), pp. 125–143 | Chapter
This study focuses on the preferred sequence trajectory of remote proposals. A remote proposal is a request, invitation, or related proposal that cannot be immediately satisfied. The data consists of 34 remote proposal sequences drawn from recordings of Swedish telephone conversations. The analysis… read more
Heritage, John and Anna Lindström 2012 Chapter 8. Advice giving – terminable and interminable: The case of British health visitorsAdvice in Discourse, Limberg, Holger and Miriam A. Locher (eds.), pp. 169–194 | Chapter
Advice giving is a central feature of many forms of professional-client interaction. This paper looks at advice giving on medical and related matters by British community nurses to first-time mothers of new-borns, in the context of visits to the new mothers’ homes. Current evidence from survey… read more