Interpretation I 143
07 08. 01 to 16 Child = TC Ernesto, GM =Grandmother
they are chatting in the kitchen and Ernesto is
holding a knife; 'bandits' are the counter-revolu-
tionaries, 'mafureira' is a kind of tree
Child Look, this can even cut a person, it is scaring, this
(Initiation)
GM hem? (Bequest in Reply Move)
Child one can cut anybody to death, with this
(Statement in Confirmation. Move)
GM the knife? (Request in Reply Move)
Child yes (Statement in Confirmation Move)
GM (...) [unclear] (Response or Request in Reply Move)
Child hi! if Soiaebody were on top of this *mafureira* ...
if it is cut and if [the somebody] fell from there, he would
make 'boom4 (Statement in Confirmation Move)
GM and the bandits? (Request in Reply Move)
Child hem? [what?] (Request in Confirmation Move)
GM and the bandits? (Request In Reply Move, repeated after
a Clarification Request)
Child even the bandits, when they go up there and this is cut, can
fall and get hurt (Statement in Confirmation Move)
Child yes (the same)
Child even if they get up a eucaliptus, they can fall (the same)
Child even from the tractor, that day, the hat fell from the
tractor and then it [the tractor] stopped (the same)
GM and then, who got it? [the hat] (Request in Reply Move)
Child the man who got off the tractor got it. (Conclusion)
Tis conversation was coded for the Tynamic of Interaction' as 1-3-9-3-9-
<6/9)-9-3-4-5-9-9-9-3-8.
There is a
Confirmation Moves' as
the trend is
children. Kote that 4 of
the 6 questions
prominence of 'Statements in
in Conversations sustained by
are made by the non-sustaining
partner in 'Arching' exhanges.