Szymanski-etal2006
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Szymanski-etal2006 |
| Author(s) | Margaret H. Szymanski, Erik Vinkhuyzen, Paul M. Aoki, Allison Woodruff |
| Title | Organizing a remote state of incipient talk: push-to-talk mobile radio interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Continuing state of incipient talk, conversation analysis, reengaging and disengaging talk, mobile radio communication |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Language in Society |
| Volume | 35 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 393–418 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0047404506060180 |
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Abstract
This study investigates the organization of conversational interaction via push-to-talk mobile radios. Operating like long-range walkie-talkies, the mobile radios mediate a remote state of incipient talk; at the push of a button, speakers can initiate, engage, disengage, and reengage turn-by-turn talk. Eight friends used the mobile radios for one week; 50 of their conversational exchanges were analyzed using conversation analytic methods. The findings describe the contour of their conversational exchanges: how turn-by-turn talk is engaged, sustained, and disengaged. Similar to a continuing state of incipient talk in copresence, opening and closing sequences are rare. Instead, speakers engage turn-by-turn talk by immediately launching the purpose of the call. Speakers disengage turn-by-turn talk by orienting to the relevance of a lapse at sequence completion. Once engaged, the mobile radio system imposes silence between speakers' turns at talk, giving them a resource for managing a remote conversation amid ongoing copresent activities.
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