Rönnqvist2021
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Sara Rönnqvist, Jan Lindström |
| Title | Turn Continuations and Gesture: “And Then”-Prefacing in Multi-Party Conversations |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Turn continuation, Turn Increments, Turn completion, And prefacing, Multimodality, Gesture, Multi-party interaction |
| Publisher | Frontiers |
| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Frontiers in Communication |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.670173 |
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Abstract
This article offers an analysis of turn-expanding practices with the connective å sen ‘and then’ in Swedish multi-party conversations in which the participants discuss and assess works of visual art. The connective is recurrently used to introduce a turn continuation, i.e. a stretch of talk that is produced after a possibly completed turn-constructional unit (TCU). We identify three types of continuations: same-speaker continuations, occurring post gap or post-other talk, and other-continuations by the next speaker. Some of the “and then” continuations are clausal, syntactically free-standing, while non-clausal continuations have more in common with TCU increments. “And then” continuations specify, restrict or redirect the unfolding contribution while at the same time orienting to a collective interactional project. In same-speaker continuations, the speaker can introduce a new aspect of the established theme or offer an account. Other-continuations can be used to achieve a shift in footing to introduce a somewhat non-aligning contribution. Both grammar and embodied resources (especially hand gestures) are activated in the management of the completion of a prior turn unit, the initiation of a turn continuation and the recompletion of the speaker’s turn. The typical multimodal trajectory is: syntactic completion of a first unit + retracted gesture; link to prior talk and upcoming talk with “and then” followed by the core of the continuation + a redeployed gesture; and finally, syntactic completion of the continuing unit + retracted gesture to a rest position.
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