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Interruption (speech)

An interruption is a speech action when one person breaks in to interject while another person is talking. Linguists, social psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists are among the social scientists who have studied and identified patterns of interruption that may differ by gender, social status, race/ethnicity, culture, and political orientation.

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Status and interruption patterns

PrestigeSocial classRaceSmall-groupHierarchies
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Political orientation

OrientationConservativeLiberal
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Turn-taking and overlaps

Harvey SacksConversation analysisEmanuel SchegloffGail JeffersonTurn-taking
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Gender and interruption patterns

Social dominanceGender identityAmerican presidential debatesDonald TrumpHillary Clinton
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Turn-taking and overlaps

Types of interruptions

Gender and interruption patterns

Status and interruption patterns

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Political orientation

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Interruption (speech)

Nodes41
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Triples8
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1

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everyday conversationsinstance ofworked with linguist Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson in the 1970s to analyze how turn-taking was organized in speech events0.80text
perceptions of prestigeinstance ofconversational participants use cues0.80text
powerinstance ofconversational participants use cues0.80text
social classinstance ofconversational participants use cues0.80text
genderinstance ofconversational participants use cues0.80text
raceinstance ofconversational participants use cues0.80text
ageinstance ofconversational participants use cues0.80text
to organize small-group hierarchiesinstance ofconversational participants use cues0.80text

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