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Navigating Joint Projects in Telephone Conversations

2004; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 37; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1207/s15326950dp3701_1

1532-6950

Adrian Bangerter, Herbert H. Clark, Anna R. Katz,

Digital Communication and Language

Abstract Conversation coordinates joint activities and the joint projects that compose them. Participants coordinate (1) vertical transitions on entering and exiting joint projects; and (2) horizontal transitions in continuing within them. Transitions are coordinated using project markers such as uh-huh, yeah, right, and okay. In the authors' proposal, participants use uh-huh, yeah, and right to continue within joint projects, and okay and all right to enter and exit them. This was examined in 2 telephone conversation corpora. Telephone conversations divide into an entry, body, and exit phase, each of which is a joint project. Okay and all right were used to transit from the entry to body and from body to exit, whereas uh-huh, yeah, and right were used within the body.