Actions as components of music masterclasses: Building an instructional project

Reed, Darren; Szczepek Reed, Beatrice

doi:10.1075/slsi.25.10ree

In:Units of Talk – Units of Action
Edited by Beatrice Szczepek Reed and Geoffrey Raymond
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction 25] 2013
► pp. 313–342

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Building an instructional project

Actions as components of music masterclasses

Darren Reed | University of York

Beatrice Szczepek Reed | University of York

Published online: 22 October 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.25.10ree

This chapter argues that local actions and interactions can be viewed as the components of larger interactional projects, such as instructions. The paper presents the regularly occurring component actions of music masterclass instructions, and details how they are locally negotiated on each occasion. Instructions are shown to be relevant units of interaction, as participants clearly orient to their initiation, implementation and closure. This type of analysis is put forward as a more meaningful approach to studying interaction than a concern over linguistic or other discipline-specific units and their form.

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