Lindstrom-etal2020
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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 |
URL | Link |
DOI | 10.1075/slsi.32.09lin |
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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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