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Chapter 13. Adjusting the design of directives to the activity environment

Imperatives in Finnish cooking club interaction

Abstract

This chapter examines the design of directives in Finnish conversation in the specific institutional setting of cooking club meetings held in a youth club. During these meetings, children bake pastries and a teacher supervises them, organising activities and giving the children instructions and advice. This chapter focuses on the teacher’s verbal directives. More specifically, the analysis examines imperatively formatted directives, but also compares the activity environments in which imperatives and other directive formats are used, especially second-person declaratives. This choice of these different formats is discussed as well as the specific design features of the imperatively formatted turns, exploring how they are adjusted to the progress and temporality of the ongoing actions as well as to the emerging participation framework.

Abstract

This chapter examines the design of directives in Finnish conversation in the specific institutional setting of cooking club meetings held in a youth club. During these meetings, children bake pastries and a teacher supervises them, organising activities and giving the children instructions and advice. This chapter focuses on the teacher’s verbal directives. More specifically, the analysis examines imperatively formatted directives, but also compares the activity environments in which imperatives and other directive formats are used, especially second-person declaratives. This choice of these different formats is discussed as well as the specific design features of the imperatively formatted turns, exploring how they are adjusted to the progress and temporality of the ongoing actions as well as to the emerging participation framework.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Chapter 1. Imperative turns at talk 1
  4. Part 1. Structure and use of imperative turns
  5. Chapter 2. A cline of visible commitment in the situated design of imperative turns 27
  6. Chapter 3. Precision timing and timed embeddedness of imperatives in embodied courses of action 65
  7. Chapter 4. Secondary and deviant uses of the imperative for requesting in Italian 103
  8. Chapter 5. Three imperative action formats in Danish talk-in-interaction 139
  9. Chapter 6. Requests for here-and-now actions in Russian conversation 175
  10. Part 2. Sequences with imperative turns
  11. Chapter 7. In the face of resistance 215
  12. Chapter 8. Imperatives and responsiveness in Finnish conversation 241
  13. Chapter 9. Negotiating deontic rights in second position 271
  14. Part 3. Sequences with imperative turns in asymmetric situations
  15. Chapter 10. Imperatives in Swedish medical consultations 299
  16. Chapter 11. Assigning roles and responsibilities 325
  17. Chapter 12. Managing compliance in violin instruction 357
  18. Chapter 13. Adjusting the design of directives to the activity environment 381
  19. Chapter 14. Epilogue 411
  20. Appendix. Transcription conventions 425
  21. Name index 429
  22. Subject index 433
Imperative Turns at Talk
This chapter is in the book Imperative Turns at Talk
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.30.13rae

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Chapter 1. Imperative turns at talk 1
  4. Part 1. Structure and use of imperative turns
  5. Chapter 2. A cline of visible commitment in the situated design of imperative turns 27
  6. Chapter 3. Precision timing and timed embeddedness of imperatives in embodied courses of action 65
  7. Chapter 4. Secondary and deviant uses of the imperative for requesting in Italian 103
  8. Chapter 5. Three imperative action formats in Danish talk-in-interaction 139
  9. Chapter 6. Requests for here-and-now actions in Russian conversation 175
  10. Part 2. Sequences with imperative turns
  11. Chapter 7. In the face of resistance 215
  12. Chapter 8. Imperatives and responsiveness in Finnish conversation 241
  13. Chapter 9. Negotiating deontic rights in second position 271
  14. Part 3. Sequences with imperative turns in asymmetric situations
  15. Chapter 10. Imperatives in Swedish medical consultations 299
  16. Chapter 11. Assigning roles and responsibilities 325
  17. Chapter 12. Managing compliance in violin instruction 357
  18. Chapter 13. Adjusting the design of directives to the activity environment 381
  19. Chapter 14. Epilogue 411
  20. Appendix. Transcription conventions 425
  21. Name index 429
  22. Subject index 433
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