Giovanni Rossi
@gio_rossi_5
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*Print publication date is July 24 in the US 🇺🇸and October 9 elsewhere 🌍 (due to overseas stock and distribution), but the e-book 💻 should be already available everywhere!.
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7/ Based on an extensive study of real-life interactions among speakers of Italian 🇮🇹🤌, I show that requesting is more than just asking 🙏 — it’s a nuanced form of social influence that shapes and maintains relationships 🫂.
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6/ Instead, how people make everyday requests reflects the dynamic and situational needs of social interaction: distinguishing individual vs shared goals 🎯, seeking help amid resistance 😤, navigating conditions for object exchange 🎁, and orchestrating collective agency 🧑🤝🧑.
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5/ I show that the use of request practices in informal settings 🏡 isn’t determined by sociodemographic characteristics of individuals 👥 such as age or gender, nor by the structural distance ↔️ or power dynamics ⚖️ associated with those characteristics.
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4/ Request practices range from directives like “Bring me a knife!” 🗣️ to questions like “Can you take over for me?” 🙏 to nonverbal cues like pointing to 👉 or reaching out for🫱 an object 🧂.
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3/ The book argues that everyday cooperation relies on a system of social action ⚙️ This means the communicative tools 🛠️ a culture provides to get others to do things are woven into a coherent array of interdependent practices 🕸️.
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2/ Too long a history and too many people to thank, so I’ll leave the social part to the Acknowledgments and keep it academic here (emojis aside).
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1/ 📘 Book alert! 🚨 After a long gestation, extensive rewriting, a complex production process, and life getting in the way, it’s finally out* ➡️
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Abstract. This book is about social action as it is carried out in everyday life. To some readers, the phrase social action may evoke the idea of people ta
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5/ 💡 This study shifts the focus from the “what” to the “where” of social missteps. It’s not the transgression itself that matters most but how it fits (or doesn’t) into the ongoing interaction. A reading for anyone curious about social norms, preferences, and everyday morality.
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4/ 🕵️♂️ Repeated transgressions get harsher reproaches. If you keep making the same misstep without adjusting, expect stronger pushback. The takeaway? One-time faux pas are often forgiven; persistence in violation is not.
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3/ ⚖️ Transgressions with no explanation? Expect a reproach. But if you offer a reason, people will let it slide. The key is maintaining mutual intelligibility and ensuring that actions are accountable within the interaction.
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2/ 🗣️ Why do we sometimes brush off transgressions like ignoring a question or declining an offer, but call out others? This study shows it’s less about how bad the social misstep is and more about whether the person owns up and explains their behavior.
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1/ 🚨 New study alert! "To Err is Human but to Persist is Diabolical: Toward a Theory of Interactional Policing" with @tanya_stivers and @AndrewChalfoun explores how people handle transgressions of the unwritten rules of social interaction.
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Social interaction is organized around norms and preferences that guide our construction of actions and our interpretation of those of others, creating a ref...
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Bravo fratellino ❤️.
A particular gene plays a critical role in visual preference for mate choice between closely related Heliconius butterflies, a new Science study finds. Learn more in this week's issue:
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RT @wrbucla: My new paper with Julieta Goldenberg asks how students who are committed in principle to using preferred pronouns seek to do s….
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Speaker eyebrow raises: allusive or combative? Check out my study with Rebecca Clift: just out in Social Interaction, as part of a special issue on facial gestures edited by Alex Groß and Caro Dix:
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