Lerner1989

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Lerner1989
BibType ARTICLE
Key Lerner1989
Author(s) Gene H. Lerner
Title Notes on overlap management in conversation: the case of delayed completion
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Tag(s) EMCA, delayed completion, overlap, turn-taking, Conversation Analysis
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Year 1989
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Journal Western Journal of Speech Communication
Volume 53
Number 2
Pages 167–177
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DOI 10.1080/10570318909374298
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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, ta regain turn occupancy and to locate the utterance of the out-of-turn 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.

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