Turns and Increments: A Comparative Perspective

Kang kwong Luke; Sandra A. Thompson; Tsuyoshi Ono

doi:10.1080/0163853X.2012.664110

Turns and Increments: A Comparative Perspective

Kang kwong Luke^*, Sandra A. Thompson, Tsuyoshi Ono

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Abstract

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in "increments" among students of conversational interaction. This article first outlines "incrementing" as an analytical problem (i.e., as turn constructional unit [TCU] extensions) by tracing its origins back to Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson's (1974) famous turn-taking article. Then, the article summarizes and reviews Schegloff's recent publications and presentations, which revisited this problem, as well as contributions on the same theme by scholars using data from a variety of languages and settings. It is suggested that authors have generally focused their analytic attention on utterances that contain structural "oddities" (i.e., oddities relative to the "canonical" structures of particular languages), which could, and do, vary tremendously across languages. A general account of TCU extensions can only be built on the basis of more data from a larger variety of languages, and it must be typologically informed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	155-162
Number of pages	8
Journal	Discourse Processes
Volume	49
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2012.664110
Publication status	Published - May 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Communication
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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