2008
DOI: 10.1080/08351810802028613
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Contingency and Action: A Comparison of Two Forms of Requesting

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“…That was strongly implied in Curl and Drew's (2008) analysis of data from calls requesting house calls from out-of-hours doctors' clinics, where the caller had to negotiate the gap between their needs and the authority of the doctor, who had the decisive vote. Hence the caller's display of entitlement and awareness of contingency in the making of requests.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…That was strongly implied in Curl and Drew's (2008) analysis of data from calls requesting house calls from out-of-hours doctors' clinics, where the caller had to negotiate the gap between their needs and the authority of the doctor, who had the decisive vote. Hence the caller's display of entitlement and awareness of contingency in the making of requests.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As helpfully outlined in the introduction to this Special Issue (Stevanovic & Svennevig, this volume), the impetus for an interactional (as opposed to a syntactic or pragmatic) study of directives can be said to have come from Heinemann's 2006 work on requests to home helpers, but perhaps more significantly from Curl and Drew's (2008) paper on telephone requests to doctors' clinics and to family members. Curl and Drew identified two factors with which one could mark one's request: the degree of entitlement one had in making it, and the degree to which one acknowledged the contingencies that the recipient might face in carrying it out.…”
Section: Requests Directives and Alternativesmentioning
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“…Similar to Curl and Drew (2008), modal constructions (''preparatory'') also belong to the most frequently employed requesting strategies. However, they occur with markedly lower frequencies than the imperative strategies (20.4% of all requests in AmE and 25.0% in BrE).…”
Section: Empirical Studies On Requestsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…She reports that almost all request types can be used in a variety of contextual situations. 2 In a more CA oriented approach to the study of requests, Curl and Drew (2008) compare requests in naturally occurring private telephone conversations to requests in telephone calls to a primary care physician's practice in Britain. While their approach generally is a qualitative one, the authors report that two thirds of the requests in their conversational corpus are realized by modal verbs which either question or state the hearer's ability or willingness to comply with the request (can/could/will) or imperatives.…”
Section: Empirical Studies On Requestsmentioning
confidence: 99%