Word repeats as unit ends

Bibliographic Data

ID5966449
AuthorsEmanuel A Schegloff (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume13
Issue3
Pages367-380
Publication date2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445611402749
OpenAlexW2036321545
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited13

Turns-at-talk are fundamental units of participation in talk-in-interaction, and turn-constructional-units (TCUs) are the basic building blocks for turns. Possible completion of a TCU is, in principle, the possible completion of the turn, but multi-unit turns are not uncommon, and participants have practices for constructing multi-unit turns and for recognizing them in the course of their production. This article offers an account of one practice (and several of its variants) usable by speakers and recipients to convey and recognize the designed completion of a multi-TCU turn and/or a multi-turn sequence in which ‘answering’ is being done: returning to, or ‘re-using’, a word or phrase from the start of the turn or sequence, whether articulated by same or different speaker, whether used to refer to same or different referents. This practice is one of the resources by which the overall structural organization of an interactional unit and its local realization are mutually realized

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