The Phonetics of Talk in Interaction

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26 - The Phonetics of Talk in Interaction

from Section V - Applications of Phonetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2021

Richard Ogden

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Rachael-Anne Knight and

Jane Setter

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Rachael-Anne Knight: Affiliation:
City, University of London
Jane Setter: Affiliation:
University of Reading

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The most natural environment for both speaking and learning to speak is face-to-face interaction. This chapter explores some of the ways in which the demands of this ecology shape the phonetic design of turns-at-talk, focusing on how social actions are accomplished through talk, the methods of Conversation Analysis, the structure of turns at talk, and their organisation into sequences of action, and how affective and epistemic displays are made audible.

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conversation turn-taking social interaction conversation analysis pragmatics prosody affect

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Information: The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics , pp. 657 - 681

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