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Turn Construction Units

Turn Construction Units is a linguistic unit in conversation analysis that constitutes the minimal increment by which a speaker can construct a turn at talk, distinguished from other speech units by its capacity to project possible completion points and regulate interspeaker timing in dialogue.

42

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4.9K

Citations

61

Authors

44

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

4

Variants

Tcus

Parents

Publications

42

On the syntax of sentences-in-progress

Gene H. Lerner · Language in Society · 1991 · 904 citations

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The construction of units in conversational talk

Margret Selting · Language in Society · 2000 · 514 citations

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On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation

Margret Selting · Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) · 2015 · 330 citations · Full text

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Turn design and the organization of participation in instructional activities

Gene H. Lerner · Discourse Processes · 1995 · 327 citations

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Well-prefaced turns in English conversation: A conversation analytic perspective

John Heritage · Journal of Pragmatics · 2015 · 302 citations · Full text

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Authors

61

  1. MS
    Margret Selting

    University of Potsdam, Germany

    4 publications · 911 citations

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  2. GH
    Gene H. Lerner

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    3 publications · 1.5K citations

    3

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  3. SA
    Sandra A. Thompson

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    2 publications · 119 citations

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  4. FK
    Friederike Kern

    Bielefeld University, Germany

    2 publications · 147 citations

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  5. SB
    Suzanne Beeke

    University College London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 98 citations

    2

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Institutions

44

  1. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    1.6K citations

  2. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    556 citations

  3. University of Potsdam

    Potsdam, Germany

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    691 citations

  4. University of York

    York, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    161 citations

  5. Language Science (South Korea)

    Seongnam-si, South Korea

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    103 citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    484 citations

  7. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    9 publications

    414 citations

  8. University of Essex

    Colchester, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    212 citations

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Venues

  1. Research on Language and Social Interaction

    7 publications · 652 citations

    7

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  2. Discourse Processes

    DP · 6 publications · 635 citations

    6

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  3. Journal of Pragmatics

    5 publications · 697 citations

    5

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  4. Language in Society

    4 publications · 1.6K citations

    4

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  5. Discourse Studies

    3 publications · 149 citations

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