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Publication details [#60291]
Hoey, Elliott M. 2015. Lapses: How People Arrive at, and Deal With, Discontinuities in Talk. Research on Language and Social Interaction 48 (4) : 430–453. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
Drawing from a wide series of activities and situations, this paper demonstrates that participants may handle lapses (silent moments) as apposite talk suspension, permissible silence development or marked chat lack. The presented data are in American and British English.