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Jefferson, Gail – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1993
The phenomena of overlapping talk is examined. In numerous types of conversational exchanges, people briefly acknowledge the utterance that overlapped their own and then recycle an overlapped utterance and/or introduce a new topic. Three types of objects are illustrated and discussed: an acknowledgment token, an assessment, and a commentary. (four…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage