Chapter 9
Consecutive clause combinations in instructing
activities
Directives and accounts in the context of
physical training
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.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Instruction as an interactionally emerging
phenomenon
- 3.Data and collection
- 4.Overview of the instruction formats
- 5.Analysis of instruction sequences
- 5.1Preparatory instructions: Demonstration by trainer
- 5.2Preparatory instructions: Client involved in trainer’s
demonstration
- 5.3Corrective instructions: Trainer intervenes in client’s
performance
- 5.4Summary: On projection, expansion and
prosody
- 6.Conclusion
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Transcription symbols
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Grammatical glosses
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Notes
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