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Jones-Thornborrow2004
BibType ARTICLE
Key Jones-Thornborrow2004
Author(s) Rod Jones, Joanna Thornborrow
Title Floors, Talk and the Organization of Classroom Activities
Editor(s)
Tag(s) EMCA, Floor, one-at-a-time, collaborative activity, classroom, discourse, organization of talk
Publisher
Year 2004
Language
City
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 33
Number 3
Pages 399-423
URL Link
DOI 10.1017/S0047404505043047
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Abstract

This article addresses the issue of the conversational floor. Using data from

classroom discourse, covering a wide range of floor related phenomena, the
authors propose a concept of the floor that ties it to the activity in hand, and
the local flexible organization of talk within that activity. After beginning with
a short review of current work relating to the conversational floor, discussion
turns to extracts from data as examples of various types of activities requir-
ing different structures of participation. The aim is to move from binary def-
initions of the floor, particularly the opposition between one-at-a-time and
collaborative, and toward a conceptualization of the floor as a continuum be-
tween "tighter" and "looser" organizations of talk in the activity.

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