Turn-design at turn-beginnings: Multimodal resources to deal with tasks of turn-construction in German

Artikel

Based on German speaking data from various activity types, the range of multimodal resources used to construct turn-beginnings is reviewed. It is claimed that participants in talk-in-interaction need to deal with four tasks in order to construct a turn which precisely fits the interactional moment of its production: 1. Achieve joint orientation: The accomplishment of the socio-spatial prerequisites necessary for producing a turn which is to become part of the participants’ common ground. 2. Display uptake: Next speaker needs to display his/her understanding of the interaction so far as the backdrop on which the production of the upcoming turn is based. 3. Deal with projections from prior talk: The speaker has to deal with projections which have been established by (the) previous turn(s) with respect to the upcoming turn. 4. Project properties of turn-in-progress: The speaker needs to orient the recipient to properties of the turn s/he is about to produce. Turn-design thus can be seen to be informed by tasks related to the multimodal, embodied, and interactive contingencies of online-construction of turns. The four tasks are ordered in terms of prior tasks providing the prerequisite for accomplishing a later task.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Pragmatik ; Konversationsanalyse ; Sprecherwechsel ; Multimodalität ; Deutsch ; Sprache

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Deppermann, Arnulf
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Amsterdam : Elsevier
• (when): 2019-05-06

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-87988
• Last update: 06.03.2025, 9:00 AM CET