MHGoodwin-Cekaite2013

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MHGoodwin-Cekaite2013
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Key MHGoodwin-Cekaite2013
Author(s) Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Asta Cekaite
Title Calibration in directive/response sequences in family interaction
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Tag(s) EMCA, Family Conversation, Directives, Directive response trajectories, Multimodality, Communicative project, Haptics, Calibration
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Year 2013
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 46
Number 1
Pages 122–138
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DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.07.008
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Abstract

In the context of parent–child interaction we examine the syntactic, prosodic and embodied shape of directive response sequences used to launch, choreograph, monitor, and stall the ongoing progress of a routine communicative project (Linell, 1998) occurring across temporal and spatial dimensions. We explore directive/response usage in the goal-oriented routine activity (Weisner, 1998) of getting children ready for bed, a temporally anchored project that involves the movement of bodies through social space and transitions from one activity to another (Cekaite, 2010; M.H. 0155 and 0160). Dialogic and embodied characteristics of social action and accountability are demonstrated (1) through alternative grammatical formats for directives (declaratives, imperatives, interrogatives (formatted as noun phrases produced with rising intonation)) (2) as well as through the systematic ways in which participants overlay action within directive sequences with alternative forms of affect, touch, and mobility.

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