“Calling-out” and “halting” summonses: Drawing the attention of a coworker on the move
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- Balantani, Angeliki ORCID Université de Fribourg
- González-Martínez, Esther ORCID Université de Fribourg
- 2025
Published in:
- Language & Communication. - Elsevier BV. - 2025, vol. 104, p. 179-196
Multimodal conversation analysis
Summons
Attention-drawing
Recruitment
Hospital staff
Corridor interaction
English
We examine the activity of securing the attention of a prospective interlocutor by means of a summons-answer sequence when the summoned party is walking away from the summoner. We focus on two forms of first-name summonses. Calling-out summonses are produced when the coparticipants are at a significant distance from each other and the summoner remains stationary. Halting summonses are produced when the summoner is moving towards the summoned party and is about to reach them. The data are video recordings of hospital staff corridor interactions oriented towards recruiting a coworker for a practical task.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département des sciences sociales
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Demography, sociology, statistics
- License
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CC BY
- Open access status
- hybrid
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.002
- ISSN 0271-5309
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/332529
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