Requesting in Social Interaction -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Glossary of transcription conventions -- Acknowledgement -- Glossary of transcription conventions -- Requesting - from speech act to recruitment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evolution of research into requesting - speech acts -- 3. Requesting in contexts of interaction -- 4. Contemporary studies - the interactional turn -- 5. The visual turn: Requests as recruitments -- 6. The organization of this volume -- References -- Human agency and the infrastructure for requests -- 1. Flexibility in the pursuit of goals -- 2. Language+ as a tool for mobilizing others -- 3. The distribution of agency -- 4. Hallmarks of requesting -- 4.1 B wants to do the requested action -- 4.2 Roles may be reversed -- 4.3 The goal may be shared -- 4.4 B need not comply -- 4.5 One may need to give B reasons why they should do the requested action -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix. Abbreviations used in glosses of Lao examples -- Benefactors and beneficiaries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Benefactive stance -- 2.1 Formulating participants' interests in the nominated action -- 2.2 Formulating Agents and Recipients -- 2.3 Benefactive Rendering of the Nominated Action Itself -- 3. Benefactive Appreciations -- 3.1 Explicit Appreciations -- 3.2 Appreciative assessments -- 3.3 Reciprocations -- 4. In pursuit of acceptance: A 'felicific calculus' -- 4.1 Maximizing benefits -- 4.2 Minimizing Costs -- 5. Benefactive status and stance: Congruence and departures -- Fungible status, optional stances -- Infungible status, manipulative stances -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The putative preference for offers over requests -- 1. Introduction -- 2. When do requests and offers occur in conversation? -- 3. The turn design of requests and offers -- 4. One action masquerading as another.

5. Do offers forestall requests? -- 6. What is the relationship between offers and requests? -- 6.1 Requests can occur in response to offers -- 6.2 Offers can occasion requests -- 6.3 Requests can occasion offers -- 6.4 Reports and displays of problems can elicit offers of solutions -- 6.5 Ungrantable requests can occasion offers of alternatives -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- On divisions of labor in request and offer environments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The phenomenon -- 2.1 Schemas 1 and 2 -- 2.2 Schemas 1 and 2 as constructions -- 3. Activity context and rationale -- 3.1 Request environments -- 3.2 Offer environments -- 3.3 The rationale -- 4. Sequential position and distribution of forms -- 5. Comparison of English and Finnish constructions -- 6. Summary and conclusions -- References -- The social and moral work of modal constructions in granting remote requests -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data, method and formats -- 3. Responses without modal adverbs: Committing to a requested action as bilaterally relevant -- 4. Responses with modal adverbs: Committing to a requested action as unilaterally relevant -- 4.1 "Ska(l) nok" - Committing to a requested action out of obligation -- 4.2 "Ka(n) godt" - Committing to a requested action as a concession -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Two request forms of four year olds -- 1. I want x -- 2. Can I have/do x -- 3. Potential deviant cases -- 4. Requests after imperatives -- 5. Sequence initial requests -- 6. Conclusions -- Appendix: Transcript conventions -- References -- Orchestrating directive trajectories in communicative projects in family interaction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and Methodology -- 3. Launching Directives at Activity Junctures -- 3.1 Directives with question format in English within a haptic framework and compliant responses.

3.2 Facing formations, haptic action, and transitioning in directive sequences -- 3.3 Launching a directive and opening a negotiation space with a Swedish modal interrogative 'ska du'/'are you going to' -- 3.4 Haptic directives and embodied compliance in the "ska du?"/'are you going to?' trajectory -- 4. Launching directives amidst children's ongoing activities: Imperatives and defiant non-compliant responses -- 5. Declarative directives about time and embodied affective responses -- 5.1 Reluctant agreement (Okay) and embodied exasperation (Uh::) -- 5.2 Defiant refusal (No) -- 5.3 Correction, reluctant agreement, and compliant unhappiness -- 5.4 Whiny pleading objections in English and Swedish -- 5.5 Discussion of stance-taking responses -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- How to do things with requests -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. Actions implemented via requests and their fulfillment -- 3.1 A simple request -- 3.2 Doing more than just requesting -- 3.2.1 Implementing "more than" a request in first position -- 3.2.2 "More than" fulfilling a request in second position -- 3.2.3 "More than" appreciating a request's fulfillment in third position -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- On the grammatical form of requestsat the convenience store -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Requesting a product at the kiosk - the verbal design of the turn -- 3. Requesting a tobacco product with a noun phrase -- 4. Requesting a tobacco product with a clause -- 5. Moving in space as a meaning-making resource in action formation -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix. Symbols for glossing -- Requesting immediate action in the surgical operating room -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Requesting in the operating room -- 2.1 Surgery as a situated accomplisment -- 2.2 Data -- 3. Sequence organization -- 3.1 Adjacency pairs -- 3.2 Sequence-closing thirds.

3.3 Orientation to the absence of response -- 3.4 Repair -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. Multimodal formats of directives: Resources mobilized -- 4.1 Linguistic resources -- 4.2 Gestural resources -- 5. Extended sequences -- 5.1 "coagulation" -- 5.2 "Take it closer" -- 5.3 Summary -- 6. Preparation of the sequence: The importance of the praxeological context -- 6.1 Camera assistant orients to the ongoing trajectory of dissection -- 6.2 Assistant holding pliers and graspers orients to the evolving tension of the tissues -- 6.3 "coag (.) coag (.) coag": Action-type sequence series and their projective potential -- 7. Series, post-expansions, and repairs -- 8. Conclusion -- Transcription conventions -- References -- When do people not use language to make requests? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Requests -- 2.2 Projectability and anticipation in activities -- 3. Data and method -- 4. Nonverbal forms of requesting -- 5. Nonverbal requests rely on the projectability of action within a joint activity -- 6. The verbal component of requests serves the recognition of non-projectable actions -- 7. A competing motivation for verbalising projectable requests: Securing immediate recipiency -- 8. Discussion -- References -- Key to interlinear glosses -- "Requests" and "offers" in orangutans and human infants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and method -- 3. Requests -- 4. Requests as courses of action -- 5. Offers -- 6. Request and offers: A sequential relationship -- 7. Requests and offers in human infants -- 8. Discussion -- References -- Index terms -- Index of names.