TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Zinken, Jörg
A1  - Kaiser, Julia
A1  - Weidner, Matylda
A1  - Mondada, Lorenza
A1  - Rossi, Giovanni
A1  - Sorjonen, Marja-Leena
T1  - Rule talk: Instructing proper play with impersonal deontic statements
JF  - Frontiers in Communication
N2  - The present paper explores how rules are enforced and talked about in everyday life. Drawing on a corpus of board game recordings across European languages, we identify a sequential and praxeological context for rule talk. After a game rule is breached, a participant enforces proper play and then formulates a rule with an impersonal deontic statement (e.g. “It’s not allowed to do this”). Impersonal deontic statements express what may or may not be done without tying the obligation to a particular individual. Our analysis shows that such statements are used as part of multi-unit and multi-modal turns where rule talk is accomplished through both grammatical and embodied means. Impersonal deontic statements serve multiple interactional goals: they account for having changed another’s behavior in the moment and at the same time impart knowledge for the future. We refer to this complex action as an “instruction.” The results of this study advance our understanding of rules and rule-following in everyday life, and of how resources of language and the body are combined to enforce and formulate rules.
KW  - accountability
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - rules
KW  - deontic modality
KW  - multi-modality
KW  - Regel
KW  - Spielregel
KW  - Brettspiel
KW  - Grammatik
KW  - Körpersprache
KW  - Instruktion
KW  - instruction
KW  - Verantwortlichkeit
KW  - Konversationsanalyse
KW  - impersonal structures
KW  - impersonal deontic statement
Y1  - 2021
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-105329
SN  - 2297-900X
SS  - 2297-900X
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.660394
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.660394
VL  - 6
SP  - 12
S1  - 12
PB  - Frontiers Media SA
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -