TY - T1 - Explicit positive assessments in personal training : Their design and sequential and embodied environment SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/344312 T3 - A1 - Huhtamäki, Martina; Grahn, Inga-Lill A2 - PB - Y1 - 2022 LA - eng AB - This paper examines explicit positive assessments (EPAs) in personal training, that is, the personal trainer’s positive evaluations of the client’s physical performance, including comments such as bra (‘good’). The data consist of video-recorded training-sessions in Swedish from Finland and Sweden. The methodological framework is interactional linguistics, and the study explores the actions that EPAs perform as well as their linguistic design and embodied and sequential environment. The main act... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 6121 Languages; Assessments; EPAs; Interactional linguistics; Multimodality; Personal training; Prosody; PARTICIPANTS; SEQUENCES; FEEDBACK; LANGUAGE N1 - PP - ER -