Mondada2017d

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Mondada2017d
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Mondada2017d
Author(s) Lorenza Mondada
Title Precision timing and timed embeddedness of imperatives in embodied courses of action
Editor(s) Liisa Raevaara Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Tag(s) EMCA, French, directive, imperative, indexicality, interactional linguistics, multimodality, praxeological context, social interaction, temporality
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2017
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 65–101
URL Link
DOI 10.1075/slsi.30.03mon
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Howpublished
Book title Imperative Turns at Talk: The Design of Directives in Action
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Abstract

Drawing on video recorded data in French, this chapter studies the use of imperatives in situations in which participants involved together in an activity get one another to do something immediately, within that activity. More specifically, this chapter focuses on activities characterized by fast progression and by a sense of urgency, risk, or speed – in which the immediacy of a participant's response is particularly relevant. These characteristics highlight temporality in a specific and exemplary way. The chapter offers a systematic analysis of sequential environments that contain imperatives directing someone to perform an immediate action. The linguistic and embodied characteristics of these actions are reviewed, as well as their responses and possible third closing turns. The analysis will demonstrate how both directives and their responses are multimodally assembled and carefully fine-tuned, and how they orient to the precise timing of the ongoing activity. Beyond the basic organization of the sequence, the chapter studies the specific formats of repeated imperatives, orienting to temporal features such as the imminence, urgency, time precision, and duration of the directed action.

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