Adjournments during TV watching

A closer look into the organisation of continuing states of incipient talk

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5966097
AutoresHatice Ergül (0000-0001-5652-2420, Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Türkiye, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen18
Número2
Páginas144-164
Fecha de publicación2016-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445615623904
OpenAlexW2345969764
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas34

This article examines how participants collaboratively achieve projection of adjournments in TV audience interaction in Turkish. Adjournments are lapses in continuing states of incipient talk (CSIT) when the participants are not just talking but engaged in another activity. Adjournments during CSIT are neither attributable silences nor are they treated as accountable by the participants. Adopting the ethnomethodological tool of conversation analysis, the article reveals two types of episodes of talk in TV audience interaction: (1) adjacency pairs and (2) extended sequences. In adjacency pairs, an adjournment is projected through absence of mutual gaze and providing minimal agreements. In extended sequences, however, gaze aversion and demonstrable establishment of mutual alignment (e.g. using proverbial expression) are employed by the participants to hold the transition relevance place and project adjournments

Conversation · Conversation analysis · Gaze · Interpersonal interaction · Linguistics · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Turkish · Communication · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology