Rule Talk: Instructing Proper Play With Impersonal Deontic Statements

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 fo...

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Main Authors: Jörg Zinken, Julia Kaiser, Matylda Weidner, Lorenza Mondada, Giovanni Rossi, Marja-Leena Sorjonen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.660394/full