Keevallik2017c
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Keevallik2017c |
| Author(s) | Leelo Keevallik |
| Title | Linking performances: The temporality of contrastive grammar |
| Editor(s) | Ritva Laury, Marja Etelämäki, E. Couper-Kuhlen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Instructional interaction, Embodied action, Contrast |
| Publisher | Finnish Literature Society |
| Year | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| City | Helsinki |
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| Pages | 54-72 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.21435/sflin.20 |
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| Book title | Linking Clauses and Actions in Social Interaction |
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Abstract
Using videotaped records of settings where an embodied skill is being taught, this paper investigates how dance teachers build action in real time. In instructive activities, such as dance and piano classes, the correct and the incorrect versions are often performed in close succession in order to enable comparison between the two. Ultimately, the incorrect version is to be replaced by the correct one by the students. In order to capture the difference between right and wrong in an activity that evolves in time, re-performing is an efficient method of reference (Keevallik 2013a) as well as of strategically enhanced contrast (Keevallik 2010a). Contrasted performances serve to present a salient pedagogical point for the students. The current paper looks into one practice for bringing about a combination of performances, focusing on grammatical devices that mark a contrast. Similar to other papers in this volume, the study thus targets the linking of actions, but here the actions are physical performances rather than spoken utterances. However, it will be argued that these verbal-bodily practices also help us discover the role of language in human action. They disclose the essentially temporal and indexical nature of grammar.
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