Kendrick, Kobin H. orcid.org/0000-0002-6656-1439 and Torreira, Francisco (2015) The Timing and Construction of Preference:A Quantitative Study. Discourse Processes. pp. 255-289. ISSN 0163-853X
Abstract
Conversation-analytic research has argued that the timing and construction of preferred responding actions (e.g., acceptances) differ from that of dispreferred responding actions (e.g., rejections), potentially enabling early response prediction by recipients. We examined 195 preferred and dispreferred responding actions in telephone corpora and found that the timing of the most frequent cases of each type did not differ systematically. Only for turn transitions of 700 ms or more was the proportion of dispreferred responding actions clearly greater than that of preferreds. In contrast, an analysis of the timing that included turn formats (i.e., those with or without qualification) revealed clearer differences. Small departures from a normal gap duration decrease the likelihood of a preferred action in a preferred turn format (e.g., a simple “yes”). We propose that the timing of a response is best understood as a turn-constructional feature, the first virtual component of a preferred or dispreferred turn format.
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Language and Linguistic Science (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 10 May 2017 10:00 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 13:46 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2014.955997 |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0163853X.2014.955997 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:116177 |
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