Jefferson1973
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Jefferson1973 |
| Author(s) | Gail Jefferson |
| Title | A case of precision timing in ordinary conversation: overlapped tag-positioned address terms in closing sequences |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Closings, Overlapping talk, Timing |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Journal | Semiotica |
| Volume | 9 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 47–96 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1515/semi.1973.9.1.47 |
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Abstract
A widely used transcription procedure is that of marking the precise point at which some ongoing utterance is overlapped by the talk of another speaker. The version utilized here is to place a double oblique [//] in the talk of an ongoing speaker to indicate the moment at which another speaker has started to talk. This procedure has provided encounters with a variety of systematic phenomena, among which is the following. An 'address term' occurring in 'tag' position (as a last particle of an otherwise possibly complete utterance) is overlapped by the talk of the recipient of that utterance. This paper argues that the occurrence of overlapped tag-positioned address terms is not a trivial misplacement in startings and stoppings, but an intensely organized phenomenon, involving a capacity for and an orientation to precise placement of talk on the part of conversationalists.
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