Dealing with In-betweeners: Managing the Status of Objects on Street-markets

• In Event: 348 - Regular Session. The Management of Interactional Challenges in the Workplace

Abstract

The paper explores how street-market traders and their customers use their visual, vocal and material orientation to sales items to manage the sales interaction and longingly accomplish the status of the objects as purchase-able, purchased or in-betweeners. The analysis is based on video-recordings of sales interaction on various street-markets in the UK and Germany,

Author

• Dirk vom Lehn, King's College London