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Publication details [#49020]
Chevalier, Fabienne H.G. 2008. Unfinished Turns in French Conversation: How Context Matters. Research on Language and Social Interaction 41 (1) : 1–30. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper employs conversation analysis to explore the systematic occurrence of unfinished conversational turns in French. It is demonstrated that context is required for the comprehension of this type of turn.