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On face-work; an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction.
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Polite responses to polite requests
Herbert H. Clark,Dale H. Schunk +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that people ordinarily compute both the literal and the indirect meanings of indirect requests if they are to recognize when the speaker is and isn't being polite, and if they want to respond politely, impolitely, or even neutrally.
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Putting it in context: the use of vignettes in qualitative interviewing:
TL;DR: In this paper, two separate studies employing developmental vignettes (hypothetical scenarios which unfold through a series of stages) to interview research participants were presented, one using a conventional fixed narrative, while the other using interactive vignette scenarios, where the choice of the succeeding slide depended on the interviewee's reaction to its predecessor.
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The Experimental Analysis of Social Performance
Michael Argyle,Adam Kendon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss what people do when they openly cooperate in one another's presence to sustain some joint form of activity, and suggest that it is fruitful to look upon the behavior of people engaged in focused interaction as an organized, skilled performance analogous to skills such as car driving.
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A Reciprocal Influence Model of Social Power: Emerging Principles and Lines of Inquiry
TL;DR: In this paper, a reciprocal influence model of social power is proposed, which is rooted in evolutionist analyses of primate hierarchies and notions that the capacity for subordinates to form alliances imposes important demands upon those in power, and that power heuristically reduces the likelihood of conflicts within groups.
Social psychological models of interpersonal communication
TL;DR: The authors showed that negative valent behaviors of outgroup members tend to be characterized at relatively high levels of abstraction, and those of in-group members are characterized more concretely, but for positively valent behaviours the pattern is reversed.