A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation

Abstract

The organization of taking turns to talk is fundament as to other speech-exchange systems.A model for the t conversation is proposed, and is examined for its compati observable facts about conversation.The results of the at least, a model for turn-taking in conversation will be c aged, party-administered, interactionally controlled, and Several general consequences of the model are explicated with turn-taking organizations for other speech-exchange 1. INTRODUCTION.Turn-taking is used for the orde allocating political office, for regulating traffic at inte at business establishments, and for talking in intervi monies, conversations etc.-these last being membe refer to as 'speech exchange systems'.It is obvious organization, one whose instances are implicated in a For socially organized activities, the presence of with turns for something being valued-and with mea affect their relative distribution, as in economies.An sociology of a turn-organized activity will want to de the turn-taking organization device, and how it affec for the activities on which it operates.For the investigator of turn-taking systems per se, i taking systems can be workably built in various organize sorts of activities that are quite different fro ular interest to see how operating turn-taking s adapting to properties of the sorts of activities in investigator interested in some sort of activity that system will want to determine how the sort of activit constrained by, the particular form of turn-taking sThe subject of this report is the turn-taking syst foregoing are among the questions to which it will b that the organization of taking turns at talk is one t in conversation, and have located a range of interesti sort of organization.1But no account of the syste