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Publication details [#48579]

Clift, Rebecca and Fabienne H.G. Chevalier. 2008. Unfinished turns in French conversation: Projectability, syntax and action. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (10) : 1731–1752.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This article uses a conversation-analytic method to examine how turns can be unfinished in (French) (telephone) conversation and still receive such unproblematic and apt responses. Data indicate participants' use of projectability and action projection and reveal that progressivity disruption of unfinished turns is not random.