Turn-Taking

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What is Turn-Taking?

Turn-taking are strategies used by the interlocutors in order to take a turn in the conversation.

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There are strategies to take the turn that may vary according the situation and/or formality:

If I may... Hang on a minute! Can I interrupt for a moment?

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current speaker talks; are attentive to:

Listeners the

syntactic completeness and to clues in pitch level

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Some

strategies are used for not taking the turn, but as a way to provide some feedback to the speaker. This kind of strategy is called back-channel.

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Back-channel

consists of vocalisations (mm, eh-eh) and short word or phrases (yeah, right, sure). These are devices to show that the listener is paying attention and they assist the speaker to continue.

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Another feature of turntaking

Speakers

also predict one anothers utterances and often complete them for them, or overlap with them as they complete. (McCarthy, 1991)

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are also some devices for closing a conversation: ...and just one last point Thats it One last thing

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Cultural

differences in matters of turn-taking can lead to conversational breakdown or misinterpretation of intentions. some cases making gestures (like shaking head) is acceptable. Other cultures may take it as an offence.
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Conclusion
In

English discourse, turn-taking can occur in several ways, for instance: with overlapping or interruption, by brief moments of silence in current speakers discourse, by nominated or selfselection, etc (always depending on
the levels of formality involved).

Turn-taking

is a strategy used by 5/21/12 interlocutors who want to