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Norrick2011
BibType ARTICLE
Key Norrick2011
Author(s) Neal R. Norrick
Title Conversational recipe telling
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation, Expert talk, Foodways, Footing, Identity, Instructions, Multi-unit turns, Narrative, Recipes, Written text versus talk
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Year 2011
Language English
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 43
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Pages 2740–2761
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DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2011.04.010
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Abstract

Conversational recipe tellings are multi-unit turns with characteristic openings and closings. They are similar to narratives in several ways, but they are also like sets of instructions, and they tend to switch back and forth between the first person past tense of the former and the second person imperative of the latter at sequentially significant junctures. Recipe tellings routinely issue from narratives and segue into narratives in conversational interaction, requiring tellers tomark off the recipe portion in characteristic ways, including shifts in tense and person. In line with their status as sets of instructions for preparing food, recipe tellings constitute expert talk, presupposing shared background knowledge and interest, and containing technical vocabulary and references to ingredients, measurements, tools and procedures associated with specialized practices. Conversational recipe telling exploits conventions from written recipes: conversational recipe telling borrows its overall sequential order, presuppositions, vocabulary, measurements, and grammatical structures from written recipe texts. Recipe telling as shop talk among cognoscenti establishes individual identity and group membership, demonstrating shared practices and interests.

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