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Locating summonses

BP2-STS

  • 2024
Published in:
  • Journal of Pragmatics. - Elsevier BV. - 2024, vol. 235, p. 254-271
multimodal conversation analysis
summons-answer sequence
locating
hospital staff
corridor interaction
English Summonses are a crucial resource for prospective participants attempting to establish contact in the opening phase of an interaction. In conversation analysis, they have been studied predominantly as the first pair part of the summons-answer sequence, functioning as “attention-getting devices.” We show that summonses can also be instrumental for achieving a more fundamental task: locating a prospective coparticipant in space. Indeed, coparticipants may rely on summons-answer sequences in order to look for their future interlocutors and identify where they are. Our study focuses on stand-alone first-name summonses in the opening phase of interactions involving a recruiting activity and considers locating the prospective coparticipant and recruitee as a preliminary to it. This article contributes to the understanding of summonses and recruitment in face-to-face “on the move” interactions. The data are video recordings of staff corridor interactions in a hospital outpatient clinic in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
Faculty
Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
Department
Département des sciences sociales
Language
  • English
Classification
Demography, sociology, statistics
License
CC BY
Open access status
hybrid
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/330949
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