Gan, Yumei, Greiffenhagen, Christian and Kendrick, Kobin H orcid.org/0000-0002-6656-1439 (2023) Sequence Facilitation:Grandparents Engineering Parent–Child Interactions in Video Calls. Research on Language and Social Interaction. pp. 65-88. ISSN 0835-1813
Abstract
Completing a sequence of actions is a basic problem of social organisation for participants. When a first pair-part is addressed to a not yet fully competent member, such as a young child, a third party can facilitate the completion of the sequence through diverse linguistic, embodied, and material practices. In this article, we examine such sequence facilitation in a perspicuous setting, namely grandparent-mediated video calls between migrant parents and their left-behind children in China. The analysis showed that the practices of sequence facilitation can have a retrospective or prospective orientation and involve not only linguistic practices, such as repeating the parent’s first pair-part or formulating its action, but also embodied and material practices, such as positioning the camera or physically animating the child’s body. The results shed light on the organisation of adjacency pairs in adult–child interactions and the embodied and material circumstances of their production in video- mediated communication. The data were in the Chinese dialects of Sichuan and Guizhou.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
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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: | 01 Mar 2023 13:00 |
Last Modified: | 21 Feb 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2023.2170640 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/08351813.2023.2170640 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:196925 |
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