TURN-TAKING

People take turns when they are selected or nominated by the current speaker, or if no one is selected, they may speak of their own accord.

• True

• False

Another feature of turn-taking is the way speakers anticipate one another’s utterances and often complete them for them.

• True

• False

Why the current speaker is speaking, listeners are….to syntactic completeness or otherwise of the speaker’s contribution. 

• A. Inconsiderate

• B. Inattentive

• C. Ignorable

• D. Attentive

Natural conversational data can often seem chaotic because back-channel, utterance-completions and overlaps.

• True

• False

How many purposes are there for  the aim of an examination of turn taking?

• ONE

• TWO

• THREE

• FOUR

When an interaction is very cooperative and mutually supportive there are likely to 

be ___ ( 3 letters) overlaps in turns.

IS THIS turn-taking in discourse? 

In the following exchange Brian (B) and Tony (T) compete for turns in a discussion about the production of a newsletter:

B: I'd like to get our   [own...

T   :    [A glossy for us would be good too....

B:... I'd like to get our own so that maybe we can even put two together.

• YES

• No

1. Turn taking the convention will depend on how many factors?

• A. 1 - The topic

• B. 2 (The topic, the relative status of the speakers)

• C. 3 (the topic, whether the interaction is relatively cooperative how well the speakers know each other and the relative status of the speakers.)

Turn taking conventions will vary according to particular …… situations.

In some situations certain speakers are not clearly given more right to speak than others.

• True

• False