This paper proposes a formal account of a conversational device we all use to secure the speaker turn and to obligate others to adopt a listener role. The analysis examines the primary presuppositions which underlie this “demand ticket,” formulating them as constitutive rules. Then, the interaction of the communicative context and the constitutive rules with a more general set of regulative rules or maxims of conversation is proposed as the mechanism by which people recognize a given utterance as “counting as” a demand ticket.
The demand ticket: A conversational device for getting the floor
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