Sequential organization of request for food in Japanese: Embodiment of social relationship

• In Event: Negotiating Relationships through Language and Social Interaction

Abstract

This paper explores the sequence organization of ordering food in Japanese at sushi restaurants. It examines a range of recipient’s practices through which the privilege of intersubjective understanding is maintained at the expense of sequence progressivity or vice versa. It demonstrates any kinds of repair-like next turn is expansion-relevant rather than closing-relevant. It further argues privileging mutual understanding is vehicles for the construction of affiliative relationships where mutual understanding is 'trusted' consequence.

Author

• Satomi Kuroshima, University of California, Los Angeles