Stevanovic2017

Stevanovic2017
BibType	INCOLLECTION
Key	Stevanovic2017
Author(s)	Melisa Stevanovic
Title	Managing compliance in violin instruction
Editor(s)	Liisa Raevaara Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Tag(s)	EMCA, Finnish particle clitics, Stevanovic2017, commitment, deontic status, directives, hortatives, imperatives, institutional agenda, instructional interaction, interactional linguistics, joint activity, violin lessons
Publisher	John Benjamins
Year	2017
Language	English
City	Amsterdam
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Journal
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Pages	357–380
URL	Link
DOI	10.1075/slsi.30.12ste
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Institution
School
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Series
Howpublished
Book title	Imperative Turns at Talk: The Design of Directives in Action
Chapter	12

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Abstract

The chapter considers the verbal design of Finnish second-person singular imperative and first-person plural hortative turns, asking whether and how those turns where there is a clitic particle -pA or -pAs attached to the finite verb differ from the non-cliticized turns, and whether -pA and -pAs are used in similar or dissimilar ways. The imperative and hortative turns used in the analysis are drawn from a data set of four violin lessons with a 5-year-old child and her teacher as the participants. All the imperative and hortative turns analyzed were spoken by the teacher to the child. The analysis shows that the non-cliticized imperative or hortative turns and the ones with -pA or -pAs are used differently. The non-cliticized turns are common in contexts where the speaker and the recipient are actively engaged in an ongoing collaboration. The imperative and hortative turns with ‑pA occur characteristically after the recipient's immediately preceding failures, which need to be remedied for the participants to be able to continue what they are up to. The imperatives and hortatives with ‑pAs are frequently used at activity transitions, where the speaker demonstrates her right to determine the broader agenda of the participants' joint activity. The chapter suggests that the linguistic design of Finnish second-person singular imperative and first-person plural hortative turns is informed by the speaker's understanding of the extent to which, and the particular sense in which, the participants' current actions are to be seen as joint ones. While the selection between imperatives and hortatives is warranted by the identity of the agent(s) of the nominated action (whether it is the recipient alone, or both the speaker and the recipient together), it is in and through the choices between the cliticized and non-cliticized formats that speakers invoke and manage the more specific basis upon which the recipient's compliance can be expected.

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