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Publication details [#4525]

Heath, Christian. 1984. Talk and recipiency: Sequential organization in speech and body movement. In Atkinson, J. Maxwell and John C. Heritage, eds. Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis. Cambridge University Press. pp. 247–265.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

back channel cue | conversational organization | involvement | non-verbal behavior

Annotation

H. explores the way in which a speaker may elicit a display of recipiency from a coparticipant and the way in which a display of recipiency is itself elicitive. The relationship between recipiency and speech is said to cast light on the nature of sustaining involvement in social interaction.