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Overlapping talk and the organization of turn-taking for conversation

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ID2875175
AuthorsEmanuel A Schegloff (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume29
Issue1
Pages1-63
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404500001019
OpenAlexW2161345458
LanguageEN
Citations received316
References cited37

This article provides an empirically grounded account of what happens when more persons than one talk at once in conversation. It undertakes to specify when such occurrences are problematic for the participants, and for the organization of interaction; what the features of such overlapping talk are; and what constraints an account of overlapping talk should meet. It describes the practices employed by participants to deal with such simultaneous talk, and how they form an organization of practices which is related to the turn-taking organization previously described by Sacks et al. 1974. This "overlap resolution device" constitutes a previously unexplicated component of that turn-taking organization, and one that provides solutions to underspecified features of the previous account

Component (thermodynamics) · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Epistemology · Resolution (logic) · Sociology · Turn-taking · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Computer Science · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology

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