Publications

Publication details [#49024]

Drew, Paul and Traci S. Curl. 2008. Contingency and Action: A Comparison of Two Forms of Requesting. Research on Language and Social Interaction 41 (2) : 129–153.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

action | doctor-patient conversation | request | telephone

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper argues that the syntactic forms that speakers select for requests display their comprehensions of the contingencies related to the ability of the recipient to grant the request.