Nishizaka2016
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Aug Nishizaka |
| Title | Syntactical constructions and tactile orientations: Procedural utterances and procedures in massage therapy |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Tactility, Syntactic forms, Procedural utterances, Massage therapy |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 98 |
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| Pages | 18-35 |
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| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.04.004 |
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Abstract
This study draws on video recordings of 12 massage therapy sessions that took place in Japan. During massage therapy sessions,therapists produce utterances regarding massaging procedures. This study investigates the ways such procedural utterances are syntactically constructed in different sequential contexts and bodily configurations. The procedural utterances take three forms: the request form, the proposal form, and the announcement form. Two observations have been made. First, various movements, including themovements that are mentioned in the procedural utterances, are initiated during the utterances. Second, the placement of the different syntactic forms of procedural utterances varies relative to the stage of the ongoing therapy session and the concurrent body movement. I argue that procedural utterances are constructed normatively sensitively to the tactile orientations that accompany bodily manipulations and that this normative sensitivity can be a resource for the negotiation between the therapist and the client regarding the incipient procedure.
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