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dc.contributor.authorGardner, Rod
dc.contributor.authorMushin, Ilana
dc.contributor.editorJohanna Rendle-Short, Maurice Neville
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:24:02Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:24:02Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2008-05-29T07:52:19Z
dc.identifier.issn01550640
dc.identifier.doi10.2104/aral0735
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/18842
dc.description.abstractOverlap in conversation is a well-established area of conversation analysis research (e.g. Jefferson 1983; Schegloff 2000) which can reveal how participants orient to transition relevance places. This paper presents an analysis of overlap in the mixed (Garrwa, Kriol and English) language conversations of two indigenous Australian women as part of a larger study of turn-taking practices in indigenous conversations. Walsh (Walsh 1995) made some observations about Aboriginal conversational style, for example that they may enter a conversation without attending to the talk of others. His observational claims are empirically examined here in the context of our data. We find that the overlapping talk in our data follows many patterns similar to English speakers' talk, including transition space overlap (cf. Jefferson 1983) and simultaneous starts. The most important difference we found was overlap onset occurring shortly after the closure of the transition space, reflecting disattendance by speakers to the content, but not the timing, of each other's talk. Overall, however, we find that the turn-taking of these two women is overwhelmingly orderly, and deviations from orderliness can mostly be accounted for by their orientation to points of possible completion and rules of turn-taking as described by Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson (1974).
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.format.extent75194 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherApplied Linguistics Association of Australia
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttp://publications.epress.monash.edu/loi/aral
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom35.1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto35.14
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Review of Applied Linguistics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume30
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1702
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2004
dc.titlePost-start-up overlap and disattentiveness in talk in a Garrwa community
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional Studies
gro.rights.copyright© 2007 ALAA and Monash University ePress. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper, prior to refereeing. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2007
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gro.griffith.authorGardner, Rod J.


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