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Unpacking Packing
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Scandinavian Languages.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3449-1015
Univ Colorado, Linguist, Boulder, CO 80309 USA.
2023 (English)In: Encounters at the Counter: The Organization of Shop Interactions / [ed] Barbara Fox; Lorenza Mondada; Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023, p. 184-213Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The chapter examine a normative orientations of packing items at a farmer’s market in Sweden. It shows that the orientations to who should pack and under what circumstances reveal the deeply moral and interactional character of packing. While customers are expected to pack most items on their own, bulk items – such as potatoes – are normatively packed by the seller. When these norms are violated, such as when customers ask to pack their own potatoes, moral indignation may result. The study further examines instances in which the seller displays difficulty in packing; customers’ careful offers of assistance in these cases display an orientation to the autonomy of the seller and call into question the universal desirability of offers of assistance.

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Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. p. 184-213
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Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, ISSN 2633-4720, E-ISSN 2633-4739
Keywords [en]
packing items, bulk items, morality of packing, interactional character of packing, offers of assistance, Sweden
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Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics Sociology (Excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-555535DOI: 10.1017/9781009216012.006ISI: 000952012700006ISBN: 9781009215992 (print)ISBN: 9781009216029 (print)ISBN: 9781009216012 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-555535DiVA, id: diva2:1955285
Available from: 2025-04-29 Created: 2025-04-29 Last updated: 2025-04-29Bibliographically approved

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