Lexical repetitions during time critical moments in boxing

Okada, Misao

doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2023.01.005

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“…Similar repetitive use of lexicon has been described by Mondada (2014) in instructing a surgical assistant to successively coagulate the cut, and by Okada (2023) for a boxing student to accomplish consecutive punches. While their examples feature verbs and variable temporal relations to the instructed moves, our case shows a noun and its repetition rhythmically together with the others’ moving bodies in an activity where the repetition by itself is the goal of the activity (instead of, e.g., preparing the cut for surgery, or punching the opponent to win a round).…”

Section: Analysis: Repetition and Embodied Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 65%

“…Here, they convey the urgency of the requested embodied action (Deppermann, 2018; Mondada, 2013, 2017, 2018) and guide the concurrently operating action (Keevallik, 2020; Mondada, 2017; Okada, 2018; Simone and Galatolo, 2021). Okada (2023) has shown how boxing coaches co-construct critical moves and jointly experience the opponent’s punches by fitting repeated tokens with the boxer’s body positioning and tactile opportunities. The prosodically marked repetitions serve, among other things, to encourage repeated action.…”

Section: Repetition In Linguistics and Interaction Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Repetition for real-time coordination of action: Lexical and non-lexical vocalizations in collaborative time management

Keevallik,

Hofstetter,

Löfgren

et al. 2024

Discourse Studies

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Repetition has often been argued to be a semiotic device that iconically signifies ‘more content’, such as intensity and plurality. However, through multimodal interaction analysis of materials in English, Estonian, and Swedish, this paper demonstrates how self-repetition is used to coordinate actions across participants and temporally organize the ongoing activity. The data are taken from infant mealtimes, pilates classes, dance training, boardgames, rock climbing, and opera rehearsals. Repetition of both lexical and non-lexical tokens can prolong, postpone, and generally organize segments of action as well as co-create rhythms and moves in a moment-by-moment reflexive relationship with other (non-vocalizing) participants. A crucial feature of repetitions is that they can be flexibly extended to fit the other’s public performance, its launching, continuation, and projectable completion. We argue that the iconicity of repetition emerges through its indexical relationship to other bodies, as a real-time jointly achieved phenomenon.

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Section: Analysis: Repetition and Embodied Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 65%

Section: Repetition In Linguistics and Interaction Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Repetition for real-time coordination of action: Lexical and non-lexical vocalizations in collaborative time management

Keevallik,

Hofstetter,

Löfgren

et al. 2024

Discourse Studies

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Escalating prosody

Szczepek Reed

2024

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This paper shows how horse-riding instructors vocally depict, and thereby co-design and mobilize the unfolding progression of horses’ and riders’ actions through gradually escalating prosody. Escalating prosody involves the stepwise raising of a speaker’s overall pitch across a series of turn components, often accompanied by increases in overall loudness and occasionally by changes in voice quality. Escalating prosody can accompany instructed activities from beginning to end or only during certain phases of the activity. The prosodic delivery mirrors the building and subsequent sustaining of physical effort expected of the horse-rider pair. It can occur with lexical instructions to perform series of actions or with repeated directives to sustain the current activity. It can also occur with repeated praise as a successful performance unfolds, and with repeated corrections, which temporally frame moments of trouble. Prosody is shown to be a resource for co-designing the actions of others, specifically, their mobility, physical effort, and sequential progression. The data are horse-riding lessons recorded in the UK and in Germany.

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A multimodal approach to grammatical aspect

Neyra,

Butler,

Munch Nicolaisen

et al. 2024

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This paper offers a multimodal approach to grammatical aspect, traditionally seen in linguistics as a verbal-morphological category. Using conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, we take as our object of study turn completions done with bodily movements and non-lexical vocalizations, focusing on the aspectual information they construct, and how this information is oriented to as relevant to the trajectory of action underway. We argue that the aspectual information constructed through the practice of completing a turn with bodily movements and non-lexical vocalizations is part of demonstrating the speaker’s experiential knowledge relevant to the epistemic claims being made, in the service of securing some form of affiliative uptake from the recipient regarding those claims. Pursuits designed in this way provide the recipient access to the speaker’s “way of viewing the internal temporal constituency of [the] situation” (Comrie 1976: 3). Furthermore, we show that the aspectual information conveyed (i) by bodily movements, and (ii) co-occurring non-lexical vocalizations, are somewhat distinct from each other. Our study is the first that we are aware of to examine the category of grammatical aspect in turn completions and in this embodied and social-interactional way. Data are in American English.

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Lexical repetitions during time critical moments in boxing

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Repetition for real-time coordination of action: Lexical and non-lexical vocalizations in collaborative time management

Repetition for real-time coordination of action: Lexical and non-lexical vocalizations in collaborative time management

Escalating prosody

A multimodal approach to grammatical aspect

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