Publications
Publication details [#54752]
Berger, Israel. 2011. Support and evidence for considering local contingencies in studying and transcribing silence in conversation. Pragmatics 21 (3) : 291–306. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
Drawing on conversation analysis, this study examines unproblematic lengthy silences in a corpus of English conversations. Solutions are compared for representing lengthy silences in such a way that their meaning is conserved in conversation analytic transcripts or others that comprise timed silences.