Lindstrom-etal2020

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Lindstrom-etal2020
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Lindstrom-etal2020
Author(s) Jan Lindström, Camilla Lindholm, Inga-Lill Grahn, Martina Huhtamäki
Title Consecutive clause combinations in instructing activities: Directives and accounts in the context of physical training
Editor(s) Yael Maschler, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström, Leelo Keevallik
Tag(s) EMCA, Directives, Accounts, Syntax, Grammar, Interactional linguistics, Embodiment, Projection, Emergent grammar, Prosody
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2020
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 245–274
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DOI 10.1075/slsi.32.09lin
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Institution
School
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Howpublished
Book title Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal Patterns and the Organization of Action
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Abstract

This chapter investigates the formatting of instructions in physical training with personal trainers or physiotherapists. Instructions occur in multimodal activities where invitations to action, compliances with them, and accounts for them emerge through grammatical, prosodic and embodied resources. We identified a two-part pattern [directive & account] that accomplishes a complex structural and pragmatic unit in trainers’ instructions. The instructions are grammatically formed of consecutive clause combinations in which the directive part is a declarative or an imperative. These combinations emerge in interactive sequences and are a designed, rather than a contingent feature in the making of instructions. Nevertheless, there is variation in their sequential emergence and grammatical and prosodic composition, from tight packages to projected or expanded clause/action combinations.

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