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Publication details [#57363]

Stevanovic, Melisa. 2013. Constructing a proposal as a thought: A way to manage problems in the initiation of joint decision-making in Finnish workplace interaction. Pragmatics 23 (3) : 519–544.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

meeting | problem solving | proposing | thought | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

Finnish

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper discusses how the Finnish common practice of constructing a proposal as a thought, enables the symmetrical distribution of deontic rights (and thus problemsolving) at the onset of joint decision-making in Finnish workplace interaction.