ABSTRACT
Directives provide the central locus for constituting local social order. Alternative ways in which speakers format directives, utterances designed to get someone else to do something, and recipients sequence next turns to them make possible a variety of forms of social organization between participants. To examine these distinctive practices, we investigate how parents and children orchestrate routine tasks in the family, many embedded within larger “communicative projects.” In this chapter, we focus on family members’ transitions in the daily round of activities and the achievement of joint attention within participation frameworks that render possible the movement from one activity and to another. A basic issue posed is moving people through space, trying to get on with a new next action within the activity cycle of the family, as there is a conjunction of activity, time, and space to which family members attend.
