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- Title
Notes on Overlap Management in Conversation: The Case of Delayed Completion.
- Authors
Lerner, Gene H.
- Abstract
A turn-taking system allocates speaking turns in conversation. Nonetheless, on occasion speakers start up "out of turn." This report examines one procedure. Delayed Completion, that speakers use to finish a discontinued turn after an intervening utterance by another speaker. Speakers employ resources intrinsic to the turn-taking system, such as the projectability of turn unit completion, to regain turn occupancy and to locate the utterance of the out-of-tum speaker as having been interruptive. When the intervening utterance makes a next action relevant. Delayed Completion can also cancel the relevance of that next action.
- Subjects
CONVERSATION; COLLOQUIAL language; ETIQUETTE; ORAL communication; LECTURERS; NARRATORS
- Publication
Western Journal of Speech Communication: WJSC, 1989, Vol 53, Issue 2, p167
- ISSN
0193-6700
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570318909374298