Analysis of Speech Acts constituting `commanding' of a multi-party interaction in a real environment

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is demonstrate a general pattern of sequences of speech acts between a commander and a large number of receivers carrying out the commanded action. We analyze interaction data in which multi-participants collaboratively drag huge trees (about 18M) from a mountain hill to a village for the fire festival at Nozawa Onsen in Nagano. In the result, we reveal that the basic sequence is lined with `a command to start an action', `an acceptance of the command', `a rallying cry to start the action', and `a responding cry to start the action. In a smooth commanding, `a command to end the action' is put at the end of the sequence.