Szymanski1999
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Szymanski1999 |
| Author(s) | Margaret H. Szymanski |
| Title | Re-engaging and dis-engaging talk in activity |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Talk in activity, social organization, conversation analysis |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Language in Society |
| Volume | 28 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0047404599001013 |
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Abstract
This article explores how members of small work groups use audible and visible actions to coordinate conversational interaction. The analysis of this activity context includes some methods for re-engaging turn-by-turn talk after it has lapsed, as well as some methods for making relevant a lapse in talk, and dis-engaging it, once it has been engaged. In addition, the actions positioned at conversational boundaries, both pre-re-engaging and post-dis-engaging, show the members' orientation to phases of lapse and phases of turn-by-turn talk. This study is part of a larger dissertation project (Szymanski 1996). I thank Rebecca Simon and her third-graders for welcoming me into their classroom. I also gratefully acknowledge Gene Lerner, John Gumperz, Leslie Jarmon, and Jürgen Streeck for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this article.
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