ALT Abstract Offers have been described in CA, by mostly highlighting their linguistic formats (Couper-Kuhlen 2014, Curl 2006, Raymond et al. 2021) and categories such as ‘benefactor’/‘beneficiary’ (by contrast to requests, Schegloff 2007; Clayman/Heritage 2014; Kendrick/Drew 2014). The embodied formatting of offers has been less considered (but see Kärkkäinen/Keisanen 2012).   This talk shows how the action of offering an object here and now (vs. offers to do a future action) is multimodally produced, involving the body manipulating the offered material objects, and is recognized on the basis of its visible- audible features. The paper also reveals offers’ potential ambiguities, both from the perspective of action formation and action ascription: the study focuses on possible “genuine” offers vs. offers that are treated as preliminaries to other actions, and accepted/refused in relation to them. This multiple-barreled nature of offers contributes to current debates and thoughts about acti

ALT Lorenza Mondada is Professor of general and French Linguistics at the University of Basel. Her research deals with social interaction in ordinary, professional and institutional settings, within an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspective. Her work on multimodality in interaction studies how linguistic and embodied resources are not only used but also configured and transformed in interaction, as well as how the situated and endogenous organization of social interaction draws on multimodal resources such as, beside language, gesture, gaze, body posture, body movements and objects manipulations. Her work has explored a diversity of settings (surgical theatres, architectural practices, meetings, family meals, encounters in public spaces, call centers, shops) on the basis of video recordings of naturally occurring activities. She has published extensively and been awarded a wide range of honours and prizes, the most recent being the ISCA best book award for Sensing in Soc

ALT The 4th Annual CASLC Celebratory Talk The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language & Communication (CASLC) at the University of York is delighted to present a talk by… Professor Lorenza Mondada University of Basel Offering an object here and now: multimodal, sequential and comparative issues Date: Thursday 21 st September 2023 Time: 2.30-4.00pm (UK time) Place: Zoom.  If you’re on the CASLC or CASLC-guest mailing list, you will receive a zoom link via google calendar. If you’re not on our mailing list, you can register by clicking on this link (follow link in main post).