Turn Takings

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Turn Takings
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• Speaker-change occurs
• One speaker talks at a time
• Brief overlap among speakers is common
• No-gap, no-overlap exchange is also common
• Standard ways of allocating turns exist
• Nothing is agreed-on or planned in advance

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• Construction of turns
• How do we know what a turn is?
• Allocation / sharing of turns
• How do we know when its over?
• One consequence of this pattern is that if the
  listener doesn't want to take turns, he or she
  typically signals the speaker can keep talking,
  by making the sort of sounds, not always words,
  that linguists call back-channel utterances .

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• Sound mhm uhun, yeah
• Body language gesture , eye contact, nodding
• Linguistic signals
• Guess what? Do you see?
• I dont get you By the way..
• Gotta run

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• Sunny Excuse me, could you tell me how to go to
  this place on the map ?
• Mandy Go straight then, pass the courthouse
  and go to AD Building and then to SOSO Department
  Store, uh north .
• Sunny mm , hum .
• Mandy Towards Riverside , till you come to the
  City Hall.
• Sunny Oh , yes .
• Mandy Do you know where that is?
• Sunny Uh , huh..Oh , surely .
• Mandy City Hall is next to GM Restaurant.
• Sunny Uh , huh
• Mandy Well there , from GM Restaurant, you turn
  back to town, left, there it is .
• Sunny Thank you .