Deppermann2015b

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Deppermann2015b
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Deppermann2015b
Author(s) Arnulf Deppermann
Title Retrospection and understanding in interaction
Editor(s) Arnulf Deppermann, Susanne Günthner
Tag(s) EMCA, Interactional Linguistics, retrospection, temporality
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2015
Language English
City Amsterdam/Philadelphia
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Pages 57–94
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DOI 10.1075/slsi.27.02dep
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Howpublished
Book title Temporality in Interaction
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Abstract

This paper shows how understanding in interaction is informed by temporality, and in particular, by the workings of retrospection. Under­standing is a temporally extended, sequentially organized process. Tempo­rality, namely, the sequential relationship of turn positions, equips partici­pants with default mechanisms to display understandings and to expect such displays. These mechanisms require local management of turn-taking to be in order, i.e., the possibility and the expectation to respond locally and reciprocally to prior turns at talk. Sequential positions of turns in in­teraction provide an infrastructure for displaying understanding and accom­plishing intersubjectivity. Linguistic practices specialized in dis­playing particular kinds of (not) understanding are adapted to the individual sequential positions with respect to an action-to-be-understood.

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