480 C. Brassac and M.-C. Mietkiewicz to transcribe entirely these elements. This is due to the gestures being continuous(how does one split the pointing of part of the picture, by the one actor not drawing but merely pointing, vaguely with his finger, the route the brothers or sister's pencil takes? ) We shall only take notice of those gestures that appeared to us to be the most relevant in the inter action we captured. Furthermore, we have chosen not to transcribe the punctuatio theoretical reasons widely debated in the conversation analysis field, on which we shall not work here( Cosnier Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 1987; Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 1990; Levinson, 1983) 4 min 27s e 1 ok your turn er mom she [draws an imaginary line between the mothers and the father's feet with the stump of her pencil] is a bit small [drops the pencil, takes leo’ s eraser L 2 ah ah ah ah laughs e 3 [ takes her brother's eraser] you have to shorten your dad here [starts a gesture to erase the fathers feet] L 4 no [pushes back his sister's hand] E 5 no but look he's too tall L 6 but who cares dad is e 7 but no then I would have to change the arms change wait look [erases dad legs] you know dad you see he is not that tall hey don' t move the sheet too much [brushes off the scraps of the eraser with the back of her hand() you see [picks her pencil up again and points it at the very spot she just erased] the size of mommy Pushes back his sister's hand] mom [laughs] [draws feet at the empty space left by his sister, at the bottom of dad s new shorter legs e 9 Yeah dads taller L 10 Yeah yeah e 11 There [puts down Leo's eraser] except that [takes back the eraser and removes mom’ s legs L 12(inaudible)ahahah ah [laughs] E 13 stop it stop it stop it L 14 wait I'll take away my things here [brushes off the scraps of the eraser e 15 don't move the sheet dont move the sheet L 16 I'm taking away my things here e 17 you moved the sheet [draws again moms legs, taller, as well as feet L 18 why are her feet glued together? e 19 so() you you draw yourself here 5 min 30 s The negotiation about sizes At the beginning of this sequence both parents are drawn, entirely. The representation of the mother that Emma, being at the left of her brother, realised in front of her is therefore located at the left of the father(cf. Figure 2). The mother's representation just got finished under the watchful eyes of a prescribing Leo: ' mom looks like a little girl doesnt she do them bigger her feet (3 seconds)er put her some earrings on. From the observation rela tive to the mothers size, Leo suggests two things: make the feet bigger and put earrings on. These are two ways to render more adult the mothers representation. The syntactic480 C. Brassac and M.-C. Mietkiewicz to transcribe entirely these elements. This is due to the gestures being continuous (how does one split the pointing of part of the picture, by the one actor not drawing but merely pointing, vaguely with his finger, the route the brother’s or sister’s pencil takes?). We shall only take notice of those gestures that appeared to us to be the most relevant in the inter￾action we captured. Furthermore, we have chosen not to transcribe the punctuation for theoretical reasons widely debated in the conversation analysis field, on which we shall not work here (Cosnier & Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 1987; Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 1990; Levinson, 1983). 4 min 27 s E 1 ok your turn er mom she [draws an imaginary line between the mother’s and the father’s feet with the stump of her pencil] is a bit small [drops the pencil, takes Leo’s eraser] L 2 ah ah ah ah [laughs] E 3 [takes her brother’s eraser] you have to shorten your dad here [starts a gesture to erase the father’s feet] L 4 no [pushes back his sister’s hand] E 5 no but look he’s too tall L 6 but who cares dad is E 7 but no then I would have to change the arms change wait look [erases dad’s legs] you know dad you see he is not that tall hey don’t move the sheet too much [brushes off the scraps of the eraser with the back of her hand](.) you see [picks her pencil up again and points it at the very spot she just erased] the size of mommy L 8 [pushes back his sister’s hand] mom [laughs] [draws feet at the empty space left by his sister, at the bottom of dad’s new shorter legs] E 9 Yeah dad’s taller L 10 Yeah yeah E 11 There [puts down Leo’s eraser] except that [takes back the eraser and removes mom’s legs] L 12 (inaudible) ah ah ah ah [laughs] E 13 stop it stop it stop it L 14 wait I’ll take away my things here [brushes off the scraps of the eraser] E 15 don’t move the sheet don’t move the sheet L 16 I’m taking away my things here E 17 you moved the sheet [draws again mom’s legs, taller, as well as feet] L 18 why are her feet glued together? E 19 so (.) you you draw yourself here 5 min 30 s The negotiation about sizes At the beginning of this sequence both parents are drawn, entirely. The representation of the mother that Emma, being at the left of her brother, realised in front of her, is therefore located at the left of the father (cf. Figure 2). The mother’s representation just got finished under the watchful eyes of a prescribing Leo: ‘mom looks like a little girl doesn’t she do them bigger her feet (3 seconds) er put her some earrings on’. From the observation rela￾tive to the mother’s size, Leo suggests two things: make the feet bigger and put earrings on. These are two ways to render more adult the mother’s representation. The syntactic