Giving space for self-direction: trouble-flagging declaratives in sanctioning problem behavior
Abstract This article examines the sanctioning of problem behavior during family breakfasts. Such sanctionings are commonly initiated with declarative TCUs. These declarative TCUs work as a vehicle for flagging the problem, and thereby occasion behavior modification ‘indirectly’. While declaratives...
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| Natura: | Article (Journal) |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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01 Oct 2024
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Interactional linguistics
Year: 2024, Volume: 4, Fascicolo: 2, Pages: 131-157 |
| ISSN: | 2666-4232 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/il.24001.kor |
| Accesso online: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1075/il.24001.kor Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www-jbe-platform-com.ubproxy.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/content/journals/10.1075/il.24001.kor 
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| Note sull'autore: | Laurenz Kornfeld |
| Riassunto: | Abstract This article examines the sanctioning of problem behavior during family breakfasts. Such sanctionings are commonly initiated with declarative TCUs. These declarative TCUs work as a vehicle for flagging the problem, and thereby occasion behavior modification ‘indirectly’. While declaratives canonically ‘inform’, it will be shown that not all declarative TCUs in sanctioning turns are well analyzed as ‘informing’. What they share is an orientation to the wrongdoer’s agency: They give space for the other person to adjust their behavior ‘themselves’, without having been told to. The prioritization of flagging a problem (as opposed to telling the other what to do) is explored on the basis of sanctioning moves that are built with both an imperative and a declarative TCU. Both distributional and qualitative (self-repair) data support the analysis of a preference for self-direction (Hepburn, 2020). Data are in German and come from the Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction. |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Gesehen am 13.04.2026 |
| Descrizione fisica: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2666-4232 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/il.24001.kor |