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IMPERATIVE TURNS AT TALK : the design of directives in action.

In middle-class Anglo-speaking circles imperatives are considered impolite forms that command another to do something; etiquette manuals recommend avoiding them. The papers in this collection de-construct such lay beliefs. Through the empirical examination of everyday and institutional interaction a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : JOHN BENJAMINS, 2017.
Colección:Studies in Language and Social Interaction Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Imperative Turns at Talk; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Imperative turns at talk: An introduction; 1. Prior research; 2. Profile of the volume; 3. Imperative turns: Conceptual issues; 3.1 Variation in imperative forms; 3.2 Imperatives in their turns; 3.3 Pragmatic dimensions of directive situations; 3.4 Imperative turns, actions, and sequences; 4. Structure of the volume; References; Chapter 2. A cline of visible commitment in the situated design of imperative turns: Evidence from German and Polish; 1. Introduction; 2. Data and methods.
  • 3. The grammar of imperatives in German and Polish4. The cline of visible commitment; 4.1 Initiating co-participants and responsive imperatives; 4.2 Engaged recipients and local project imperatives; 4.3 Available recipients and global project imperatives; 4.4 Divergent engagements and competitive imperatives; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 3. Precision timing and timed embeddedness of imperatives in embodied courses of action: Precision timing and timed embeddedness of imperatives in embodied courses of action: Examples from French; 1. Introduction.
  • 2. The phenomenon and data set3. Sequence organization; 3.1 The basic organization of the sequence; 3.2 Formats of 1st actions: Imperatives and other multimodal resources; 3.3 Second position: Responses; 3.4 Third position: Assessments and repairs; 4. Indexicality and praxeological context; 4.1 How to make sense of the indexicality of directives; 4.2 Embeddedness in the praxeological context; 5. Temporal trajectories of repeated imperatives: Urgency versus duration; 5.1 Repetition until proper compliance is achieved: A sense of urgency; 5.2 Online calibration: Managing duration.
  • 6. Normativity: Negative imperatives6.1 Anticipating possible problematic actions; 6.2 Orientation to an actual inadequate action; 6.3 From positive to negative imperatives; 6.4 Blaming; 7. Conclusions; Conventions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 4. Secondary and deviant uses of the imperative for requesting in Italian; 1. Introduction; 2. The imperative form in Italian; 3. Background: Using the imperative for requesting; 4. Data and sampling; 5. Primary use; 6. Secondary uses; 7. Deviant uses; 8. Discussion; Acknowledgements; References.
  • Chapter 5. Three imperative action formats in Danish talk-in-interaction: Three imperative action formats in Danish talk-in-interaction: The case of imperative + modal particles bare and ligeThe case of imperative + modal particles bare and lige1. Introduction; 2. Danish imperatives in general and in our data; 3. Analysis of three imperative action formats; 3.1 Imperative+lige as a format for requesting; 3.2 Imperative+bare as a format for granting permission; 3.3 Bare+imperative as a format for giving advice; 4. Summary and discussion; Acknowledgements; References.