ABSTRACT

This article makes an empirical and a methodological contribution to the comparative study of action. The empirical contribution is a comparative study of three distinct types of action regularly accomplished with the turn format du meinst x (“you mean/think x”) in German: candidate understandings, formulations of the other’s mind, and requests for a judgment. These empirical materials are the basis for a methodological exploration of different levels of researcher abstraction in the comparative study of action. Two levels are examined: the (coarser) level of conditionally relevant responses (what a response speaker must do to align with the action of the prior turn) and the (finer) level of “full alignment” (what a response speaker can do to align with the action of a prior turn). Both levels of abstraction provide empirically viable and analytically interesting descriptive concepts for the comparative study of action. Data are in German.

摘要

本文对行动的比较研究做出了经验和方法上的贡献。经验贡献是对三种不同类型动作的比较研究，这些动作通常以德语的du meinst x（“您的意思/思考x”）转换格式完成：候选者的理解，对方思想的形成和要求作出判断的请求。这些经验材料是在行动比较研究中对不同层次的研究人员抽象进行方法学探索的基础。检查了两个级别：条件相关响应的（粗略）级别（响应说话者必须做的以与前一回合的动作保持一致）和（更精细）级别的“完全对准”（响应者可以做到的水平）以便与上一回合的动作保持一致）。这两个抽象层次都为比较研究动作提供了经验上可行和分析上有趣的描述性概念。数据为德语。