Lerner2004a

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Lerner2004a
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Key Lerner2004a
Author(s) Gene H. Lerner
Title On the place of linguistic resources in the organization of talk-in-interaction: grammar as action in prompting a speaker to elaborate
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Tag(s) EMCA, Grammar, Conversation Analysis, Prompting, Turn taking
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Year 2004
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 37
Number 2
Pages 151–185
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DOI 10.1207/s15327973rlsi3702_3
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Abstract

Specific parts of grammatical structure can be employed by speakers to accomplish specifiable actions in talk-in-interaction. In this article, I describe the interactional use of "parts of speech" ordinarily used by individual speakers to connect elements within single turn-constructional units. The items employed for these held-in-common grammatical practices can also be deployed as stand-alone contributions that by their very incompleteness prompt a prior speaker to add another increment to their turn. As such, this constitutes a recipient-administered practice for expanding a turn at talk. I show that this usage constitutes another (previously undescribed) form of other-initiated repair that is designed to prompt a prior speaker to add a type-specific element found missing from an otherwise completed turn.

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