Recipiency and peripheral participation in language brokering

In a multilingual situation where some participants do not speak or understand one of the used languages, need to balance between language choice and restrictions it creates for opportunities participate. this conversation analytic study, I examine how manage differentiated possibilities participation in asymmetrically interactions instances brokering what extent does draw recipient into conversation. The paper concludes, first, that participants’ embodied displays recipiency toward main speaker, whose talk they cannot (fully) understand, as well disengagement from conversation, can serve “recruit” linguistic assistance others. Second, broker’s orientations recipient’s status are reflected content turns. study thereby demonstrates multimodally negotiate forms peripheral their accountability. argues that, although is done only occasionally includes great variation terms prior translated, these practices random but result systematic interactional organization action participation.