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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

By
Richard Ogden
Edited by
Rachael-Anne Knight  and
Jane Setter
Rachael-Anne Knight
Affiliation:
City, University of London
Jane Setter
Affiliation:
University of Reading
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Summary

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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conversationturn-takingsocial interactionconversation analysispragmaticsprosodyaffect
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The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics , pp. 657 - 681
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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