Oloff2018a

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Oloff2018a
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Oloff2018a
Author(s) Florence Oloff
Title Revisiting delayed completions: The retrospective management of co-participant action
Editor(s) Arnulf Deppermann, Jürgen Streeck
Tag(s) EMCA, Video data, Multiactivity, Multiparty, Unit completion, Turn-taking, German
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2018
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 123-160
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.293.04olo
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Howpublished
Book title Time in Embodied Interaction: Synchronicity and Sequentiality of Multimodal Resources
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Abstract

Since Lerner coined the notion of delayed completion in 1989, this recurrent social practice of continuing one’s speaking turn while disregarding an intermediate co-participant’s utterance has not been investigated with regard to embodied displays and actions. A sequential approach to videotaped mundane conversations in German will explain the occurrence and use of delayed completions. First, especially in multi-party and multi-activity settings, delayed completions can result from reduced monitoring and coordinating activities. Second, recipients can use intra-turn response slots for more extended responsive actions than the current speaker initially projected, leading to delayed completion sequences. Finally, delayed completions are used for blocking possibly misaligned co-participant actions. The investigation of visible action illustrates that delayed completions are a basic practice for retrospectively managing co-participant response slots.

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