Publications

Publication details [#56807]

Childs, Carrie. 2012. I’m not X, I just want Y’: Formulating ‘wants’ in interaction. Discourse Studies 14 (2) : 181–196.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | desire | discursive practice | social interaction | turn

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This conversation analytic study of the two-part structure, ‘I don’t want X, I want/just want Y’ in family mealtime and television documentary discourse, demonstrates how speakers utter their desires to serve sequentially developing social interaction.