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Turn-taking

Turn-taking is a type of organization in conversation and discourse where participants speak one at a time in alternating turns. In practice, it involves processes for constructing contributions, responding to previous comments, and transitioning to a different speaker, using a variety of linguistic and non-linguistic cues.

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Turn-taking

Nodes44
Edges43
Triples69
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.045455
Components1

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Turn-taking

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related to Eye contact · 14
Turn-taking → American Sign Language, As, David Langford, During, English, His, Langford, Mutual-break, Mutual-hold, The, There, This, Usually, When
related to Cultural variation · 11
Turn-taking → Aizuchi, American English, Backchannel, Conversational, English, English-speaking, For, In, Japanese, Less, Maynard
related to Overlap · 11
Turn-taking → Another, As, Chordal, Conditional, Continuers, Overlapping, Schegloff, Terminal, The, There, When
related to Timing · 11
Turn-taking → Another, Californians, Deborah Tannen, Due, For, New Yorkers, She, The, United States, Vocal, Within
related to Gender · 8
Turn-taking → American, Deep, One, Rates, Research, Studies, Such, This
related to Organization · 5
Turn-taking → Emanuel Schegloff, Gail Jefferson, Harvey Sacks, In, The
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Turn-taking → organizational system, type of organization in conversation and discourse where participants speak one at a time in alternating turns

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conversation speaker overlap turns turn gender speakers two interruptions speak one speech interruption participants overlapping found many types another study

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Turn-takingis atype of organization in conversation and discourse where participants speak one at a time in alternating turns0.90text
Turn-takingis aorganizational system0.90text
uh-huh or rightinstance offound that English-speaking students used backchannel expressions0.80text
mainly at grammatical completion pointsinstance offound that English-speaking students used backchannel expressions0.80text
un or sō while their partner was speakinginstance ofthe Japanese speakers often produced backchannel expressions0.80text
timeinstance ofturn-taking can vary in aspects0.80text
overlapinstance ofturn-taking can vary in aspects0.80text
and perception of silence in different culturesinstance ofturn-taking can vary in aspects0.80text
but can have universal similarities as wellinstance ofturn-taking can vary in aspects0.80text
Turn-takingrelated to Cultural variationConversational0.60section
Turn-takingrelated to Cultural variationFor0.60section
Turn-takingrelated to Cultural variationJapanese0.60section

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