Pfander-Couper-Kuhlen2019
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Pfänder-Couper-Kuhlen2019 |
| Author(s) | Stefan Pfänder, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen |
| Title | Turn-sharing revisited: An exploration of simultaneous speech in interactions between couples |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Turn sharing, Simultaneous speech, Affective stance, Epistemic claim, Embodied practices |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 147 |
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| Pages | 22–48 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pragma.2019.05.010 |
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Abstract
This paper investigates one particular type of simultaneous speech, namely turn-sharing, in the Freiburg Sofa Talks, a corpus of video-recorded dyadic conversations between partners, friends, and siblings who are recollecting events they have experienced together in the past. The focus is on interactions in German and French. In turn-sharing, participants aim at saying the same thing at the same time, using these moments to convey something to each other, and occasionally to a third party in the room. We identify two different types of turn-sharing, choral performance and chiming in, which are brought off by different micro-practices with verbal, prosodic, and bodily resources. Each type achieves something different interactionally, either displaying a shared affective stance towards something in an alternative world or embodying an epistemic claim to know as much as the main speaker. We conclude that choral performance and chiming in are two sedimented formats for turn-sharing that are achieved with different practices using semiotic resources that are comparable, if not identical, across languages.
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