Preface |
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Chapter 1 Language and social interaction in Southern Chinese marketplace |
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Chapter 2 The research context, methodology and theoretical preliminaries |
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2.3 Theoretical preliminaries: Avoidance vs. involvement rituals; "ingroup" vs. "outgroup" norms |
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2.4 Theoretical preliminaries: Transaction cost |
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Chapter 3 Initiating transactions: Interactional asymmetry in competitive cooperation |
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3.1 "Focus" in face-to-face encounters |
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3.2 Buyers: Diffusing interactional focus |
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3.2.2 A tripartite participation structure |
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3.2.3 Delays in activity progression |
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3.3 Sellers: Pursuing interactional focus; "fast-forward" strategies |
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3.3.1 Pursuing interactional togetherness |
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3.3.2 Instigating "chain of events" |
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3.4 At service shops: Embodied forward design and overlapping activity frames |
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3.5 Discussion and conclusions |
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Chapter 4 The many shades and shapes of transaction: Transactions as an oral genre |
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4.1 Oral genres in the marketplace |
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4.2 Fluidity and variability: The role of information access in transaction |
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4.2.1 Speech in transactional activities |
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4.2.2 Spatial layouts and information access |
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4.4 Dissolving "focus" at the finish move |
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4.5 Discussion and conclusions |
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Chapter 5 Making deals, blocking sales: Conflict talk in the marketplace |
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5.2 Bargaining in the marketplace |
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5.3 Bargaining as emergent conflict talk |
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5.4 Freebies, upselling moves, and win-win resolutions |
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5.5 Moral dimensions of bargaining: When conflicts escalate |
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5.6 Blocking sale advances with a negative style |
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5.7 Discussion and conclusions |
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Chapter 6 Buyer Beware: Assessment and knowledge in the marketplace |
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6.1 Vendor spiels: Interactive construction of quality, value and prestige |
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6.2 Distributed knowledge and sensorial assessment |
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6.3 Contesting epistemic primacy |
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6.4 Discussion and conclusions |
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Chapter 7 Relationships in the marketplace: On phatic communication |
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7.1 Greetings: Rituals that control information flow |
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7.1.1 B-statements as greeting rituals |
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7.1.2 Greetings to manage norm expectation |
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7.1.3 Negative style to preempt topicalization |
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7.2.1 Gossip's dubious reputation |
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7.2.4 Laughing together: Gossip in chorus |
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7.3 Discussion and conclusions |
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Chapter 8 Market has a heart: Empathy in conversational storytelling |
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8.1 Conversational storytelling |
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8.2 Story 1: "He lost his temper!" |
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8.3 Story 2: "Tears kept rolling down." |
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8.4 Spiral story structure |
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8.5 Identity and quotative |
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8.6 Discussion and conclusions |
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Chapter 9 Language as a transaction cost: As market models evolve |
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9.1 Language, multimodal interaction and transaction cost |
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9.1.1 Verbal vs. non-verbal: The balance between efficiency and social norm |
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9.1.2 (Cross-) cultural factors |
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9.1.3 Outgroup and ingroup dynamics |
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9.2 Language and social interaction in new models of e-commerce |
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9.2.1 Vertical integration of markets: Officialdom and synthetic personalization |
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9.2.2 Manufacturing desire: The power of language in social commerce |
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References |
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Appendix A The transcription conventions |
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Appendix B Abbreviations |
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Index |
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