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Giving reasons for doing something now or at some other time
Physiotherapists often have to ask their clients to move in a certain way, and they sometimes accompany such instructions with explanations. It turns out that these practitioners have an interesting resource—they can design their explanation to bear either upon the exact movement currently in play or on a more general or future case. I show that they make this distinction largely by how they deploy explanatory connectives like because, so, and so on—and, counterintuitively, how they omit such connectives. I finish by considering other datasets and discussing the pedagogical benefits, in any interaction, of being able to construct and convey different temporal domains that the account is meant to bear on.
Funding
I acknowledge the support of the British Council/Beta Techniek Partnership in Science via a Research Visit Grant and also the support of the Department of Health National Coordinating Centre for Research Capacity Development via a Nursing and Allied Health Postdoctoral Fellowship.
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School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
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Research on Language & Social InteractionVolume
46Issue
2Pages
105 - 124Citation
PARRY, R., 2013. Giving reasons for doing something now or at some other time. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 46 (2), pp.105-124.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
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0835-1813eISSN
1532-7973Publisher version
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