Giovanni Rossi is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He uses conversation analysis to study human language and gesture as a system of tools for social interaction, with special interests in action understanding, everyday cooperation, and cultural differences/similarities. He is a co-editor of Getting Others to Do Things: A Pragmatic Typology of Recruitments.

• Acknowledgments 1 Social Action and Language 2 Nonverbal Requests 3 Bilateral and Unilateral Requests 4 Delicate Requests 5 Pre-Requests 6 At the Edges of Requests 7 A System of Practices Appendix: Statistical analyses Index

Giovanni Rossi is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He uses conversation analysis to study human language and gesture as a system of tools for social interaction, with special interests in action understanding, everyday cooperation, and cultural differences/similarities. He is a co-editor of Getting Others to Do Things: A Pragmatic Typology of Recruitments.

• Acknowledgments 1 Social Action and Language 2 Nonverbal Requests 3 Bilateral and Unilateral Requests 4 Delicate Requests 5 Pre-Requests 6 At the Edges of Requests 7 A System of Practices Appendix: Statistical analyses Index

Giovanni Rossi is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He uses conversation analysis to study human language and gesture as a system of tools for social interaction, with special interests in action understanding, everyday cooperation, and cultural differences/similarities. He is a co-editor of Getting Others to Do Things: A Pragmatic Typology of Recruitments.

• Acknowledgments 1 Social Action and Language 2 Nonverbal Requests 3 Bilateral and Unilateral Requests 4 Delicate Requests 5 Pre-Requests 6 At the Edges of Requests 7 A System of Practices Appendix: Statistical analyses Index