Chapter 9. Changes in turn-design over interactional histories – the case of instructions in driving school lessons
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Arnulf Deppermann
Abstract
This paper studies how the turn-design of a highly recurrent type of action changes over time. Based on a corpus of video-recordings of German driving lessons, we consider one type of instructions and analyze how the same instructional action is produced by the same speaker (the instructor) for the same addressee (the student) in consecutive trials of a learning task. We found that instructions become increasingly shorter, indexical and syntactically less complex; interactional sequences become more condensed and activities designed to secure mutual understanding become rarer. This study shows how larger temporal frameworks of interpersonal interactional histories which range beyond the interactional sequence impinge on the recipient-design of turns and the deployment of multimodal resources in situ.
Abstract
This paper studies how the turn-design of a highly recurrent type of action changes over time. Based on a corpus of video-recordings of German driving lessons, we consider one type of instructions and analyze how the same instructional action is produced by the same speaker (the instructor) for the same addressee (the student) in consecutive trials of a learning task. We found that instructions become increasingly shorter, indexical and syntactically less complex; interactional sequences become more condensed and activities designed to secure mutual understanding become rarer. This study shows how larger temporal frameworks of interpersonal interactional histories which range beyond the interactional sequence impinge on the recipient-design of turns and the deployment of multimodal resources in situ.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- The body in interaction 1
- Chapter 1. Forward-looking 31
- Chapter 2. Suspending talk 69
- Chapter 3. The temporal organization of conversation while mucking out a sheep stable 97
- Chapter 4. Revisiting delayed completions 123
- Chapter 5. Questions on the move 161
- Chapter 6. Bodily shadowing 203
- Chapter 7. Prefiguring the future 231
- Chapter 8. Embodiment of activity progress 261
- Chapter 9. Changes in turn-design over interactional histories – the case of instructions in driving school lessons 293
- Chapter 10. Times of rest 325
- Index 351
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- The body in interaction 1
- Chapter 1. Forward-looking 31
- Chapter 2. Suspending talk 69
- Chapter 3. The temporal organization of conversation while mucking out a sheep stable 97
- Chapter 4. Revisiting delayed completions 123
- Chapter 5. Questions on the move 161
- Chapter 6. Bodily shadowing 203
- Chapter 7. Prefiguring the future 231
- Chapter 8. Embodiment of activity progress 261
- Chapter 9. Changes in turn-design over interactional histories – the case of instructions in driving school lessons 293
- Chapter 10. Times of rest 325
- Index 351
