The research question which this chapter addresses is motivated by the growing awareness
that speakers who are engaged in verbal interaction with one another employ adaptive …

Repetition poses certain problems for pragmatics, as evidenced by Sperber and Wilson's
claim that “the effects of repetition on utterance interpretation are by no means constant” …

A task for any description dealing with the use of spoken language in natural situations is to
account for the radical interdependency of speaking and listening. Speakers, in the very act …

One aim of current research into talk-in-interaction is to identify the resources that enable
recipients to monitor the course of a turn in progress in order to project its upcoming …

The essays in this volume are all analyses of prosody SH primarily intonation and rhythm SH
and the role it plays in everyday conversation. Prosody emerges as a strategy deployed by …

Goffman has pointed out that interlocutors in the course of any natural conversation are
constantly changing the footing of their talk. In Goffman's usage, this term refers to the …

In this article, I introduce the aims and scope of a project examining other-repetition in
natural conversation. This introduction provides the conceptual and methodological …

Rather than focusing on conversation as one context among many in which to study
prosody, this paper approaches prosody as one set of resources and practices among many …

There is a need to get to grips with the phonetic design of talk in its totality and without a
separation of prosodic and non-prosodic aspects. Features of duration, phonation and …

Repetition has been described as one of the most misunderstood phenomena in
psycholinguistics (Ochs & Schieffelin, 1983). Indeed, repetition is a human, social activity …