Book contents
- Understanding Dialogue
- Understanding Dialogue
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Glossary
- Preface to Understanding Dialogue: Language Use and Social Interaction (Pickering & Garrod)
- 1 The Challenge of Dialogue
- Part I The Shared Workspace Framework
- Part II Alignment during Dialogue
- Part III Using the Shared Workspace Efficiently
- 8 Saying Just Enough
- 9 Speaking in Good Time
- Part IV Extending the Shared Workspace Framework
- References
- Index
9 - Speaking in Good Time
from Part III - Using the Shared Workspace Efficiently
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2021
Book contents
- Understanding Dialogue
- Understanding Dialogue
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Glossary
- Preface to Understanding Dialogue: Language Use and Social Interaction (Pickering & Garrod)
- 1 The Challenge of Dialogue
- Part I The Shared Workspace Framework
- Part II Alignment during Dialogue
- Part III Using the Shared Workspace Efficiently
- 8 Saying Just Enough
- 9 Speaking in Good Time
- Part IV Extending the Shared Workspace Framework
- References
- Index
Summary
The chapter discusses how interlocutors jointly optimize the timing of their contributions. It considers how they interleave their dialogue plans so that the steps are properly sequenced (e.g., an answer follows a question). It then considers how their contributions are interleaved so as to avoid overlap but with minimal gaps. Finally we consider how interlocutors entrain their speech rates to support coordinated speech planning and production.
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- Understanding DialogueLanguage Use and Social Interaction, pp. 190 - 208Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021