Raevaara2017

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Raevaara2017
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Raevaara2017
Author(s) Liisa Raevaara
Title Adjusting the design of directives to the activity environment
Editor(s) Liisa Raevaara Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Tag(s) Conversation Analysis, EMCA, Finnish, adultxchild interaction, embodied action, imperative, instruction, interactional linguistics, participation, second-person declarative, timing
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2017
Language English
City Amsterdam
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 381–410
URL Link
DOI 10.1075/slsi.30.13rae
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title Imperative Turns at Talk: The Design of Directives in Action
Chapter 13

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Abstract

This chapter examines the design of directives in Finnish conversation in the specific institutional setting of cooking club meetings held in a youth club. During these meetings, children bake pastries and a teacher supervises them, organising activities and giving the children instructions and advice. This chapter focuses on the teacher's verbal directives. More specifically, the analysis examines imperatively formatted directives, but also compares the activity environments in which imperatives and other directive formats are used, especially second-person declaratives. This choice of these different formats is discussed as well as the specific design features of the imperatively formatted turns, exploring how they are adjusted to the progress and temporality of the ongoing actions as well as to the emerging participation framework.

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