SantnerWolfartsberger2015
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | SantnerWolfartsberger2015 |
Author(s) | Anita Santner-Wolfartsberger |
Title | Parties, persons, and one-at-a-time: Conversation Analysis and ELF |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, ELF, Lingua franca, Turn-taking, Multiparty interaction |
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Year | 2015 |
Language | English |
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Journal | Journal of English as a Lingua Franca |
Volume | 4 |
Number | 2 |
Pages | 253–282 |
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DOI | 10.1515/jelf-2015-0020 |
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Abstract
Drawing on an analysis of ELF data, this article deals with the characteristics and complexities of turn-taking in interactions involving three or more participants. Sacks et al.’s (1974) often quoted framework for turn-taking in conversations, which can still be regarded canonical reading in the conversation analytic literature, serves as a starting point for this investigation. The aim of this paper is to scrutinize the applicability of the turn-taking model for group interactions. A key concept in this regard is the notion of a party: the conversation analytic model for turn-taking posits that turn-taking does not take place between individual speakers, but between parties (hence the term multi-party conversation) which can potentially consist of several speakers (cf. Schegloff 1995: 32–33). In group interactions it is thus possible that overlap occurs among co-incumbents of the same party. This kind of simultaneous speech, however, has not yet been subject of systematic empirical analysis. The present paper offers a preliminary account of this aspect of turn-taking in multi-participant interaction by discussing data extracts from an ELF workplace meeting of seven speakers and suggests possible avenues for further research on the phenomenon.
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