The organization of turn-taking in pool skate sessions
J Ivarsson, C Greiffenhagen - Research on Language and Social …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Research on Language and Social Interaction, 2015•Taylor & Francis
This study takes pool skating, where only one skater rides at a time, as an example of a turn-
taking system, albeit one that is organized not through speech but through bodily actions.
This allows us to revisit Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson's (1974) famous “turn taking” paper—
in particular, their initial broad conception of turn-taking systems as including activities other
than the speech-exchange systems studied by conversation analysis. Despite the original
declaration, non-speech turn-taking systems have evaded close scrutiny for the past four …
taking system, albeit one that is organized not through speech but through bodily actions.
This allows us to revisit Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson's (1974) famous “turn taking” paper—
in particular, their initial broad conception of turn-taking systems as including activities other
than the speech-exchange systems studied by conversation analysis. Despite the original
declaration, non-speech turn-taking systems have evaded close scrutiny for the past four …
This study takes pool skating, where only one skater rides at a time, as an example of a turn-taking system, albeit one that is organized not through speech but through bodily actions. This allows us to revisit Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson’s (1974) famous “turn taking” paper—in particular, their initial broad conception of turn-taking systems as including activities other than the speech-exchange systems studied by conversation analysis. Despite the original declaration, non-speech turn-taking systems have evaded close scrutiny for the past four decades. By turning our attention to such a system here, this study makes two contributions: firstly, to the sociology of turn-organized activities (through a comparison of the central features of turn-taking for conversation with pool skating) and, secondly, to the study of how bodily actions can accomplish pre-beginnings (since in pool skate sessions, this is the place to settle the matter of turn allocation in order to avoid overlaps in riding).
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