Monday, 11 August 2014

C-Formation (Control Formation)


An embodiment of control, involving for example a parent positios behind a child as an embodied directive, e.g. shove the child to brush teeth.

cf. Kendon 1990 on F-formation (facing formation)

Source: Cekaite, A. (2010). Shepherding the child: embodied directive sequences in parent–child interactions. Text & Talk, 30(1), 1–25, p.7.

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