Two multimodal formats for responding to requests
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► We discuss multimodal request sequences in co-present interactions. ► We describe two multimodal social action formats for favorable responses to requests. ► We examine how the acceptance and fulfillment of requests is achieved.
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Mirka Rauniomaa is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oulu, Finland. Drawing mainly on conversation analysis, she examines how people orient to and use language, their bodies and the material surrounds in social interaction. Her recent research interests include interaction in cars and objects in interaction.
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Mirka Rauniomaa is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oulu, Finland. Drawing mainly on conversation analysis, she examines how people orient to and use language, their bodies and the material surrounds in social interaction. Her recent research interests include interaction in cars and objects in interaction.
Tiina Keisanen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oulu, Finland. Her research focuses on the practices of everyday language use and social interaction in different settings. Keisanen's current work relates to the construction and use of conversational social action formats in multimodal face-to-face interaction.
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The authors contributed equally to the preparation of this manuscript, and the order of their names here was assigned randomly.