Bassetti2021

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Bassetti2021
BibType ARTICLE
Key Bassetti2021
Author(s) Chiara Bassetti, Kenneth Liberman
Title The orderliness and sociability of “talking together”: portrait of a conversational jam session
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Tag(s) EMCA, Simultaneous talk, Listening, Sociability, Ethnomethods, Talking together
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Year 2021
Language English
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Journal Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality
Volume 4
Number 1
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DOI 10.7146/si.v4i1.122793
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Abstract

Conversations among Italians often entail many-at-a-time rather than one-at-a-time speaking. This “talking together” is a deliberate aim of parties and a relevant aspect of their social life. It is a variant system for organizing ordinary talk. We describe how simultaneity is organized, how participants collaborate to maintain the orderliness of their interaction, and how, to do so, they listen to each other and continuously monitor talk for its content and its form. Following Simmel, we see this as a classic example of sociability, a play-form of sociation.

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