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Rossi, Giovanni. 2018. Composite Social Actions: The Case of Factual Declaratives in Everyday Interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction 51 (4) : 379–397.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

When taking a turn at talk, a speaker normally performs a sequential action like a question, answer, complaint, or request. Occasionally, though, a turn at talk may perform not a single but a composite action, implying a connection of more than one action. This paper displays that factual declaratives are repeatedly employed to execute composite actions consisting of both an informing and a request or, alternatively, a criticism and a request.