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New Departures in Anthropology

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

New Departures in Anthropology

By N. J. (University of Sydney) Enfield, Jack (University of Toronto) Sidnell

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About the book

When people do things with words, how do we know what they are doing? Many scholars have assumed a category of things called actions: 'requests', 'proposals', 'complaints', 'excuses'. The idea is both convenient and intuitive, but as this book argues, it is a spurious concept of action. In interaction, a person's primary task is to decide how to respond, not to label what someone just did. The labeling of actions is a meta-level process, appropriate only when we wish to draw attention to others'...Show more

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9780521895286

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2017

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New Departures in Anthropology

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Hardcover

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