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This paper analyzes how language and body interact in boxing sparring sessions by focusing on the Japanese particle (lit. ‘yes’) as it occurs turn-initially in the first part of instruction-compliance sequences. Based on sequential and embodied analysis of 11 boxing sparring sessions, this paper examines: (1) in what sequential and embodied environments is used; (2) if responds to a focal moment, what constitutes that moment; (3) what actions do -prefaced instructions indicate? How do language and body interact when these actions emerge? This paper identifies three environments: (1) while a boxer is being attacked, the particle prefaces instruction to evade the attack; (2) after a first phase of combined boxing movements, it precedes instruction pursuing the second phase; (3) after a change of distance, the particle introduces instructions for punches which are suitable at that distance. In each environment, is used to identify the exact moment at which targeted shifts from a current body alignment to a different one should be implemented. Depending on the temporal order of language and body, -prefaced instructions express different actions, e.g., ‘late’ instruction can “acknowledge” (Mondada 2021) boxer’s independent initiations of the targeted action and, simultaneously, make their completions relevant.

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Japanese turn-initial particle hai in instruction-compliance sequences in boxing
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Keywords: hai ; boxing instruction ; early responses ; Japanese particle ; embodied and sequential analysis

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