Recruitment During Table-Cooked Meals
Foregrounding and Backgrounding Offers and Acts of Assistance Within Multi-Party Talk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22335656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Greer (0000-0003-4460-6381, Kobe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 162-185 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | East Asian Pragmatics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2055-7752 • E-ISSN: 2055-7760 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/eap-2025-0002 |
| OpenAlex | W4411945741 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
At Japanese yakiniku-style restaurants, customers grill meat at the table and then often offer it to each other. Such offers are a form of recruitment—the outcome of various interactional methods for eliciting or soliciting involvement. Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis, this study focuses on sequences of lingua franca English talk between three Japanese people and their French guest in one such restaurant setting. The analysis explores dual involvements in which food-related offers are interactionally backgrounded in deference to primary talk about other topics. The cooking party times their offers to gaps in the primary talk, sometimes delaying the offer to insert it at a sequentially favorable juncture to better mobilize acceptance from the recipient. The study provides insight into the integrated roles of temporality, embodiment, materiality, and participation in the mundane, yet finely coordinated, accomplishment of attentiveness to the needs of others during table-cooked meals
Art · Database · Foregrounding · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
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Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction
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Progressivity of initial service encounters
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Prompting offers of assistance in interaction
Lifting the pen and the gaze
The Boundary of Recruitment
Multiple Temporalities of Language and Body in Interaction
Assistance and Other Forms of Cooperative Engagement
Schisming
The Recruitment Matrix
Recruitment
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Requesting another to taste
Drinking up endings
Talking and driving
On the communicative affordances of instrumental action
On the hierarchy of interactional resources
The 'Other' side of recruitment
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Object transfers
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |