Buchbeitrag

Retrospection and understanding in interaction

This paper shows how understanding in interaction is informed by temporality, and in particular, by the workings of retrospection. Understanding is a temporally extended, sequentially organized process. Temporality, namely, the sequential relationship of turn positions, equips participants with default mechanisms to display understandings and to expect such displays. These mechanisms require local management of turn-taking to be in order, i.e., the possibility and the expectation to respond locally and reciprocally to prior turns at talk. Sequential positions of turns in interaction provide an infrastructure for displaying understanding and accomplishing intersubjectivity. Linguistic practices specialized in displaying particular kinds of (not) understanding are adapted to the individual sequential positions with respect to an action-to-be-understood.

Retrospection and understanding in interaction

Urheber*in: Deppermann, Arnulf

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Language
Englisch

Subject
Verstehen

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Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Deppermann, Arnulf
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2015-03-25
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Veröffentlichung
(who)
Benjamins : Amsterdam

URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-35620
Last update
14.09.2023, 8:26 AM CEST

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  • Buchbeitrag

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  • Deppermann, Arnulf
  • Benjamins : Amsterdam

Time of origin

  • 2015-03-25

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