Cover not available

Article published In: Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics
[Pragmatics 23:3] 2013
► pp. 519544

References (73)
Arminen, Ilkka (2005) Institutional interaction: Studies of talk at work. Aldershot: Ashgate.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Barnes, Rebecca, and Duncan Moss (2007) Communicating a feeling: The social organization of ‘private thoughts’. Discourse Studies 91: 123-148. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bella, Spyridoula (2011) Mitigation and politeness in Greek invitation refusals: Effects of length of residence in the target community and intensity of interaction on non-native speakers’ performance. Journal of Pragmatics 431: 1718-1740.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Blum-Kulka, Shoshana (1987) Indirectness and politeness in requests: Same or different. Journal of Pragmatics 111: 131-146.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Brown, Penelope, and Stephen Levinson (1978 [1987]) Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Byon, Andrew S. (2006) The role of linguistic indirectness and honorifics in achieving linguistic politeness in Korean requests. Journal of Politeness Research 21: 247-276.  BoP Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Caffi, Claudia (1999) On mitigation. Journal of Pragmatics 311: 881-909.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Charles, Cathy, A. Gafni, and T. Whelan (1997) Shared decision-making in the medical encounter: What does it mean? (Or it takes at least two to tango). Social Science and Medicine 441: 681-692. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Clark, Herbert H. (1979) Responding to indirect speech acts. Cognitive Psychology 111: 430-477.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Clark, Herbert, and Richard Gerrig (1990) Quotations as demonstrations. Language 661: 764-805. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth (1999) Coherent voicing: On prosody in conversational reported speech. In W. Bublitz, and U. Lenk (eds.), Coherence in spoken and written discourse: How to create it and how to describe it.Amsterdam: Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 11-32. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(2007) Assessing and accounting. In E. Holt, and R. Clift (eds.), Reporting talk: Reported speech in interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 81–119.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(forthcoming) What does grammar tell us about action? In R. Laury, M. Etelämäki, and E. Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), Special issue of Pragmatics on “Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics”.
Curl, Traci S., and Paul Drew (2008) Contingency and action: A comparison of two forms of requesting. Research on Language and Social Interaction 411: 129-153.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Drew, Paul, and Elizabeth Holt (1995) Idiomatic expressions and their role in the organization of topic transition in conversation. In M. Everaert, E.-J. van der Linden, A. Schenk, and R. Schreuder (eds.), Idioms: Structural and psychological perspectives.Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 117-132.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Duncan, Starkey, and George Niederehe (1974) On signalling that it's your turn to speak. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 101: 234-247. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Edwards, Derek (1997) Discourse and Cognition. London: Sage.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1999) Emotion discourse. Culture and Psychology 51: 271-291. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Edwards, Derek, and Jonathan Potter (1992) Discursive Psychology. London: Sage.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Eelen, Gino (2001) A critique of politeness theories. Manchester: St. Jerome’s.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Faerch, Claus, and Gabriele Kasper (1989) Internal and external modification in interlanguage request realization. In S. Blum-Kulka, J. House, and G. Kasper (eds.), Cross-cultural pragmatics: Requests and apologies.Norwood, NJ: Ablex, pp. 221-247.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Fraser, Bruce (1980) Conversational mitigation. Journal of Pragmatics 4.4: 341–350.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1990) Perspectives on politeness. Journal of Pragmatics 141: 219-236.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Goffman, Erving (1955) On face-work: An analysis of ritual elements in social interaction. Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes 181: 213-231.  BoP Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Günthner, Susanne (1999) Polyphony and the “layering of voices” in reported dialogues: An analysis of the use of prosodic devices in everyday reported speech. Journal of Pragmatics 311: 685-708. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Haakana, Markku (2007) Reported thought in complaint stories. In E. Holt, and R. Clift (eds.), Reporting talk: Reported speech in interaction.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 150-178.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hakulinen, Auli, M. Vilkuna, R. Korhonen, V. Koivisto, T.R. Heinonen, and I. Alho (2004) Iso suomen kielioppi [The Comprehensive Grammar of Finnish]. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hepburn, Alexa, and Sally Wiggins (2007) Discursive research: Themes and debates. In A. Hepburn and S. Wiggins (eds.), Discursive research in practice: New approaches to psychology and interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-28.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Heritage, John (1984) Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(2011) Territories of knowledge, territories of experience: Emphatic moments in interaction. In T. Stivers, L. Mondada, and J. Steensig (eds.), The morality of knowledge in conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 159-183. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Heritage, John, and Geoffrey Raymond (2005) The terms of agreement: Indexing epistemic authority and subordination in talk-in-interaction. Social Psychology Quarterly 681: 15-38. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
House, Juliane, and Gabriele Kasper (1981) Politeness markers in English and German. In F. Coulmas (ed.), Conversational routines. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 157-185.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Houtkoop, Hanneke (1987) Establishing agreement: An analysis of proposal-acceptance sequences. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.  BoP. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1990) Accounting for proposals. Journal of Pragmatics 141: 111-124.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Jefferson, Gail (2004) “At first I thought:” A normalizing device for extraordinary events. In G.H. Lerner (ed.), Conversation analysis: Studies from the first generation.Amsterdam: Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 131-167. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kärkkäinen, Elise (2012) “I thought it was very interesting:” Conversational formats for taking a stance. Journal of Pragmatics 441: 2194-2210. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lakoff, Robin (1973) The logic of politeness; or, minding your p’s and q’s. Proceedings of the Ninth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society , pp. 292-305.  BoP
Laury, Ritva (2012) Syntactically non-integrated Finnish jos ‘if’ -conditional clauses as directives. Discourse Processes 491: 213-242. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Leech, Geoffrey (1983) Principles of pragmatics. London: Longman.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lindström, Anna (1999) Language as social action: Grammar, prosody, and interaction in Swedish conversation. Ph.D. thesis. Uppsala University, Uppsala.
Lindström, Jan, and Camilla Lindholm (2009) “May I ask:” Question frames in institutional interaction. In M. Haakana, M. Laakso, and J. Lindström (eds.), Talk in interaction: Comparative dimensions.Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, pp. 180-205.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Linell, Per (2009) Rethinking language, mind and world dialogically: Interactional and contextual theories of human sense-making. Charlotte, NC: Information Age.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lukes, Steven (1978) Power and authority. In T. Bottomore, and R. Nisbet (eds.), A history of sociological analysis. London: Heinemann, pp. 633-676.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Meier, Christoph (1997) Arbeitsbesprechungen: Interaktionsstrukturen, Interaktions-dynamik und Konsequenzen einer sozialen Form. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mills, Sara (2003) Gender and politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Myers, Greg (1998) Displaying opinions: Topic and disagreement in focus groups. Language in Society 271: 85-111. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(2004) Matters of opinion: Talking about public ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Niemelä, Maarit (2005) Voiced direct reported speech in conversational storytelling: Sequential patterns of stance taking. SKY Journal of Linguistics 181: 197-221.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Oreström, Bengt (1983) Turn-taking in English conversation. Lund, SE: CWK Gleerup.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Pomerantz, Anita (1984) Pursuing a response. In J.M. Atkinson, and J. Heritage (eds.), Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 152-164.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Potter, Jonathan (2006) Cognition and conversation. Discourse Studies 81: 131-140.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Potter, Jonathan, and Claudia Puchta (2007) Mind, mousse and moderation. In A. Hepburn, and S. Wiggins (eds.), Discursive research in practice: New approaches to psychology and interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 104-123. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Raymond, Geoffrey (2003) Grammar and social organization: Yes/no interrogatives and the structure of responding. American Sociological Review 681: 939-967. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Raymond, Geoffrey, and John Heritage (2006) The epistemics of social relations: Owning grandchildren. Language in Society 351: 677-705.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Romaine, Suzanne, and Deborah Lange (1991) The use of like as a marker of reported speech and thought: A case of grammaticalization in progress. American Speech 661: 227-278.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Sacks, Harvey (1992) Lectures on conversation, Vol. 1 and 21. Edited by Gail Jefferson, with an introduction by Emanuel A. Schegloff. Malden: Blackwell.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Schegloff, Emanuel A. (2007) Sequence organization in interaction: A primer in conversation analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Searle, John R. (1976) A classification of illocutionary acts. Language in Society 51: 1-23.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Sidnell, Jack (2006) Coordinating gesture, gaze and talk in re-enactments. Research on Language and Social Interaction 391: 377-409. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Silverstein, Michael (2010) “Direct” and “indirect” communicative acts in semiotic perspective. Journal of Pragmatics 421: 337-353. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Spencer-Oatey, Helen (2000) Rapport management: A framework for analysis. In H. Spencer-Oatey (2000), Culturally speaking: Managing rapport through talk across cultures. London: Continuum, pp. 98-120.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(2002) Managing rapport in talk: Using rapport sensitive incidents to explore the motivational concerns underlying the management of relations. Journal of Pragmatic 341: 529-545.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Stevanovic, Melisa (2012a) Establishing joint decisions in a dyad. Discourse Studies 141: 779-803. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(2012b) Prosodic salience and the emergence of new decisions: On the prosody of approval in Finnish workplace interaction. Journal of Pragmatics 441: 843-862.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Stevanovic, Melisa, and Anssi Peräkylä (2012) Deontic authority in interaction: The right to announce, propose and decide. Research on Language and Social Interaction 451: 297-321.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Stivers, Tanya, and Makoto Hayashi (2010) Transformative answers: One way to resist a question’s constraints. Language in Society 391: 1-25.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Strong, Michael, and Wendy Baron (2004) An analysis of mentoring conversations with beginning teachers: Suggestions and responses. Teaching and Teacher Education 201: 47-57. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Tykkyläinen, Tuula, and Minna Laakso (2009) Five-year-old girls negotiating pretend play: Proposals with the Finnish particle jooko . Journal of Pragmatics 421: 242-256. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Vásquez, Camilla, and Alfredo Urzúa (2009) Reported speech and reported mental states in mentoring meetings: Exploring novice teacher identities. Research on Language and Social Interaction 421: 1-19. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Watts, Richard (2003) Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  BoPGoogle Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Yngve, Victor H. (1970) On getting a word in edgewise. Papers from the sixth regional meeting Chicago Linguistic Society , pp. 567-577.  BoP
Cited by (40)

Cited by 40 other publications

Kalari, Tuuli
2025. Propositions and alignment as constructs of cooperation in multiprofessional–client meeting interactions. Nordic Social Work Research 15:2  pp. 240 ff. DOI logo
Tůma, František
2025. Social Interaction in the Workplace: A Review of Conversation Analytic Research. In New Generation Communication: Die Kommunikation in einer veränderten Welt [Europäische Kulturen in der Wirtschaftskommunikation, 37],  pp. 55 ff. DOI logo
de Oliveira, Milene Mendes & Melisa Stevanovic
2024. Interculturality and decision making: Pursuing jointness in online teams. Intercultural Pragmatics 21:1  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Huang, Xu & Yongping Ran
2024.  Nǐ kànzhe bàn ba: negotiating complaint solutions in e-shopping service encounters. Text & Talk 44:5  pp. 597 ff. DOI logo
Solem, Marit Skarbø, Anne Marie Dalby Landmark, Elizabeth Stokoe & Karianne Skovholt
2024. Assessment in practice: achieving joint decisions in oral examination grading conversations. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 68:7  pp. 1522 ff. DOI logo
Virtanen, Mikko T & Riikka Nissi
2024. Negotiating joint commitment in collaborative work project: Focus on text-based requests and news deliveries in atypical work. Discourse Studies 26:3  pp. 402 ff. DOI logo
Ekström, Mats & Melisa Stevanovic
2023. Conversation analysis and power: examining the descendants and antecedents of social action. Frontiers in Sociology 8 DOI logo
Magnusson, Simon & Melisa Stevanovic
2023. Sexual consent as an interactional achievement: Overcoming ambiguities and social vulnerabilities in the initiations of sexual activities. Discourse Studies 25:1  pp. 68 ff. DOI logo
Magnusson, Simon & Melisa Stevanovic
2025. Refusing sexual advances: the management of (un)willingness in verbal and nonverbal rejections. Critical Studies in Media Communication  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Nicolaisen, Emilie Munch & Gitte Rasmussen
2023. Multimodal methods for managing deontic rights in interdisciplinary trials. Multimodality & Society 3:4  pp. 399 ff. DOI logo
Tuomenoksa, Asta, Suzanne Beeke & Anu Klippi
2023. People with aphasia and their family members proposing joint future activities in everyday conversations: A conversation analytic study. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 58:2  pp. 310 ff. DOI logo
Hao, Quanxi, Hui Guo, Chuntao Li & Shuai Yang
2022. Subsequent Actions Engendered by the Absence of an Immediate Response to the Proposal in Mandarin Mundane Talk. Frontiers in Psychology 13 DOI logo
NAKAGAWA, Atsushi
2022. Conversation Analysis of Calls in Long-distance Caregiving. Japanese Sociological Review 73:2  pp. 136 ff. DOI logo
Pick, Ina
2022. Der Handlungskomplex Entscheiden am Beispiel der „Unterstützten Entscheidungs-findung“ in der rechtlichen Betreuung. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik 2022:77  pp. 253 ff. DOI logo
Stevanovic, Melisa, Samuel Tuhkanen, Milla Järvensivu, Emmi Koskinen, Camilla Lindholm, Jenny Paananen, Enikö Savander, Taina Valkeapää & Kaisa Valkiaranta
2022. Making Food Decisions Together: Physiological and Affective Underpinnings of Relinquishing Preferences and Reaching Decisions. Sage Open 12:1 DOI logo
Stevanovic, Melisa, Taina Valkeapää, Elina Weiste & Camilla Lindholm
2022. Joint decision making in a mental health rehabilitation community: The impact of support workers’ proposal design on client responsiveness. Counselling Psychology Quarterly 35:1  pp. 129 ff. DOI logo
Tiitinen, Sanni & Tea Lempiälä
2022. Two Social Functions of Stepwise Transitions When Discussing Ideas in Workplace Meetings. International Journal of Business Communication 59:3  pp. 355 ff. DOI logo
Webb, Joseph, David Wilkins & Richard Martin
2022. (How) are decisions made in child and family social work supervisions?. Qualitative Social Work 21:6  pp. 1252 ff. DOI logo
Weiste, Elina, Miira Niska, Taina Valkeapää & Melisa Stevanovic
2022. Goal Setting in Mental Health Rehabilitation: References to Competence and Interest as Resources for Negotiating Goals. Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health 9:4  pp. 409 ff. DOI logo
Baldauf-Quilliatre, Heike & Isabel Colón De Carvajal
2021. Séquences de guidage dans des sessions de jeux vidéo : comment co-construire la programmation d’une action dans l’interaction ?. Langages N° 221:1  pp. 107 ff. DOI logo
Koskinen, Emmi, Samuel Tuhkanen, Milla Järvensivu, Enikö Savander, Taina Valkeapää, Kaisa Valkia, Elina Weiste & Melisa Stevanovic
2021. The Psychophysiological Experience of Solving Moral Dilemmas Together: An Interdisciplinary Comparison Between Participants With and Without Depression. Frontiers in Communication 6 DOI logo
Ong, Ben, Scott Barnes & Niels Buus
2021. Downgrading Deontic Authority in Open Dialogue Reflection Proposals: A Conversation Analysis. Family Process 60:4  pp. 1217 ff. DOI logo
Ong, Ben, Scott Barnes & Niels Buus
2022. Developing multiple perspectives by eliding agreement: A conversation analysis of Open Dialogue reflections. Discourse Studies 24:1  pp. 47 ff. DOI logo
Stevanovic, Melisa, Samuel Tuhkanen, Milla Järvensivu, Emmi Koskinen, Enikö Savander, Kaisa Valkia & Dennis Tay
2021. Physiological responses to proposals during dyadic decision-making conversations. PLOS ONE 16:1  pp. e0244929 ff. DOI logo
Thompson, Sandra A., Barbara A. Fox & Chase Wesley Raymond
2021. The grammar of proposals for joint activities. Interactional Linguistics 1:1  pp. 123 ff. DOI logo
Hofstetter, Emily
2020. Thinking with the Body: Embodying Thinking as a Practice in Board Games. In Discursive Psychology and Embodiment,  pp. 247 ff. DOI logo
Laury, Ritva, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo & Janica Rauma
2020.  When an expression becomes fixed. In Fixed Expressions [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 315],  pp. 133 ff. DOI logo
Stevanovic, Melisa & Sonja E. Koski
2018. Intersubjectivity and the domains of social interaction: proposal of a cross-sectional approach. Psychology of Language and Communication 22:1  pp. 39 ff. DOI logo
Stevanovic, Melisa
2017. Managing compliance in violin instruction. In Imperative Turns at Talk [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 30],  pp. 357 ff. DOI logo
Stevanovic, Melisa
2018. Social deontics: A nano‐level approach to human power play. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 48:3  pp. 369 ff. DOI logo
Stevanovic, Melisa
2020. Mobilizing student compliance. In Mobilizing others [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 33],  pp. 115 ff. DOI logo
Stevanovic, Melisa
2021. Three Multimodal Action Packages in Responses to Proposals During Joint Decision-Making: The Embodied Delivery of Positive Assessments Including the Finnish Particle Ihan “Quite”. Frontiers in Communication 6 DOI logo
Stevanovic, Melisa
2021. Deontic authority and the maintenance of lay and expert identities during joint decision making: Balancing resistance and compliance. Discourse Studies 23:5  pp. 670 ff. DOI logo
Lindström, Jan, Camilla Lindholm & Ritva Laury
2016. The interactional emergence of conditional clauses as directives: constructions, trajectories and sequences of actions. Language Sciences 58  pp. 8 ff. DOI logo
Mondada, Lorenza
2016. Going to write. Language and Dialogue 6:1  pp. 140 ff. DOI logo
Mondada, Lorenza & Kimmo Svinhufvud
2016. Writing-in-interaction. Language and Dialogue 6:1  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Nissi, Riikka
2016. Spelling out consequences: Conditional constructions as a means to resist proposals in organisational planning process. Discourse Studies 18:3  pp. 311 ff. DOI logo
Pälli, Pekka & Esa Lehtinen
2014. Making objectives common in performance appraisal interviews. Language & Communication 39  pp. 92 ff. DOI logo
Stevanovic, Melisa & Maria Frick
2014. Singing in interaction. Social Semiotics 24:4  pp. 495 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 30 november 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue