Time in structure: A discussion of temporality in structure.
This will be a theoretical review of the literature on (genetic) (evolutionary) structuralism proceeding from Saussure (on syntagms) and Lévi-Strauss (on marriage exchange) to conversational analysis (on adjacency pairs and canonical sequences such “the joke” or “the learning lesson”) of shorter and longer sequences involving more and more people.
Structure in time: When syntagms are distributed among serveral speakers, inevitably, “stuff happens” as people “screw around.” From a vocabulary of "rules" to a vocabulary of injunctions, instructions, and the meting of consequences.