Walker, G. (2012) Coordination and Interpretation of Vocal and Visible Resources: 'Trail-off' Conjunctions. Language and Speech, 55 (1). 141 - 163. ISSN 0023-8309
Abstract
The empirical focus of this paper is a conversational turn-taking phenomenon in which conjunctions produced immediately after a point of possible syntactic and pragmatic completion are treated by co-participants as points of possible completion and transition relevance. The data for this study are audio-video recordings of 5 unscripted face-to-face interactions involving native speakers of US English, yielding 28 'trail-off' conjunctions. Detailed sequential analysis of talk is combined with analysis of visible features (including gaze, posture, gesture and involvement with material objects) and technical phonetic analysis. A range of phonetic and visible features are shown to regularly co-occur in the production of 'trail-off' conjunctions. These features distinguish them from other conjunctions followed by the cessation of talk. © SAGE Publications 2012.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2012. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Language and Speech. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | conversation; gaze; gesture; phonetics; turn-taking |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) > Department of English Language and Linguistics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2015 13:44 |
Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2018 10:11 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830911428858 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0023830911428858 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:88499 |