Chapter 9. Consecutive clause combinations in instructing activities
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Jan K. Lindström
Abstract
This chapter investigates the formatting of instructions in physical training with personal trainers or physiotherapists. Instructions occur in multimodal activities where invitations to action, compliances with them, and accounts for them emerge through grammatical, prosodic and embodied resources. We identified a two-part pattern [directive & account] that accomplishes a complex structural and pragmatic unit in trainers’ instructions. The instructions are grammatically formed of consecutive clause combinations in which the directive part is a declarative or an imperative. These combinations emerge in interactive sequences and are a designed, rather than a contingent feature in the making of instructions. Nevertheless, there is variation in their sequential emergence and grammatical and prosodic composition, from tight packages to projected or expanded clause/action combinations.
Abstract
This chapter investigates the formatting of instructions in physical training with personal trainers or physiotherapists. Instructions occur in multimodal activities where invitations to action, compliances with them, and accounts for them emerge through grammatical, prosodic and embodied resources. We identified a two-part pattern [directive & account] that accomplishes a complex structural and pragmatic unit in trainers’ instructions. The instructions are grammatically formed of consecutive clause combinations in which the directive part is a declarative or an imperative. These combinations emerge in interactive sequences and are a designed, rather than a contingent feature in the making of instructions. Nevertheless, there is variation in their sequential emergence and grammatical and prosodic composition, from tight packages to projected or expanded clause/action combinations.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Complex syntax-in-interaction 1
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Part I. Emerging projecting constructions
- Chapter 2. Nel senso (che) in Italian conversation 25
- Chapter 3. The emergence and routinization of complex syntactic patterns formed with ajatella ‘think’ and tietää ‘know’ in Finnish talk-in-interaction 55
- Chapter 4. The insubordinate – subordinate continuum 87
- Chapter 5. Emergent patterns of predicative clauses in spoken Hebrew discourse 127
- Chapter 6. From matrix clause to turn expansion 151
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Part II. Locally emergent clause-combining patterns
- Chapter 7. Practices of clause-combining 185
- Chapter 8. Grammatical coordination of embodied action 221
- Chapter 9. Consecutive clause combinations in instructing activities 245
- Chapter 10. Right-dislocated complement clauses in German talk-in-interaction 275
- Chapter 11. Relative-clause increments and the management of reference 303
- Chapter 12. Afterword 331
- Index 339
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Complex syntax-in-interaction 1
-
Part I. Emerging projecting constructions
- Chapter 2. Nel senso (che) in Italian conversation 25
- Chapter 3. The emergence and routinization of complex syntactic patterns formed with ajatella ‘think’ and tietää ‘know’ in Finnish talk-in-interaction 55
- Chapter 4. The insubordinate – subordinate continuum 87
- Chapter 5. Emergent patterns of predicative clauses in spoken Hebrew discourse 127
- Chapter 6. From matrix clause to turn expansion 151
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Part II. Locally emergent clause-combining patterns
- Chapter 7. Practices of clause-combining 185
- Chapter 8. Grammatical coordination of embodied action 221
- Chapter 9. Consecutive clause combinations in instructing activities 245
- Chapter 10. Right-dislocated complement clauses in German talk-in-interaction 275
- Chapter 11. Relative-clause increments and the management of reference 303
- Chapter 12. Afterword 331
- Index 339
