Kendrick, Kobin H. orcid.org/0000-0002-6656-1439, Brown, Penelope, Dingemanse, Mark et al. (8 more authors) (2020) Sequence organization:a universal infrastructure for social action. Journal of Pragmatics. pp. 119-138. ISSN 0378-2166
Abstract
This article makes the case for the universality of the sequence organization observable in informal human conversational interaction. Using the descriptive schema developed by Schegloff (2007), we examine the major patterns of action-sequencing in a dozen nearly all unrelated languages. What we find is that these patterns are instantiated in very similar ways for the most part right down to the types of different action sequences. There are also some notably different cultural exploitations of the patterns, but the patterns themselves look strongly universal. Recent work in gestural communication in the great apes suggests that sequence organization may have been a crucial route into the development of language. Taken together with the fundamental role of this organization in language acquisition, sequential behavior of this kind seems to have both phylogenetic and ontogenetic priority, which probably puts substantial functional pressure on language form.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | ©2020 Elsevier B.V. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Conversation analysis,Cross-cultural,Sequence organization,Universals |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Language and Linguistic Science (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2020 15:30 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 17:48 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.06.009 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.pragma.2020.06.009 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:164218 |
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