On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Bonnie Nardi wrote:
Thanks to everyone for all these great suggestions.
Am I right that most of these papers concern turn taking? My student is interested in how people hesitate in expressing ideas rather than in conversational back and forth.
Everything in conversation is a turn-taking phenomenon in one way or another. For instance, due to the rules of turn-taking, one cannot hesitate at many transition relevance places in a conversation without running the risk of loosing the chance to take a turn unless one does something to indicate one wants to talk but needs to hesitate. Further, what one's hesitation means depends at the very least on the immediately prior turn in the conversation. Of course, this assumes that your student is looking at conversations and similar interactional things. --Christian Nelson