In:The Making of Multi-Unit Turns: A spring-loaded door
Rod Gardner, Joe Blythe, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear and Francesco Possemato
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction 38] 2025
► pp. 10–45
Chapter 2Turn construction, multi-unit turns and activity types
Published online: 24 October 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.38.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.38.c2
Article outline
- 2.1How turn-taking works
- 2.2Turn continuations
- 2.3What are multi-unit turns?
- 2.4MUTs and action formation
- 2.5How multi-unit turns are achieved
- 2.5.1Linguistic resources for turn construction
- 2.5.2Gesture as a resource for turn construction
- 2.5.3Gaze as a resource for turn construction
- 2.5.4Posture as a resource for turn construction
- 2.6Securing another TCU
- 2.6.1Before the first TCU (pre-beginnings)
- 2.6.2TCUs which project MUTs
- 2.6.2.1Pre-expansions and prospective indexicals
- 2.6.2.2Orientation to the moral orders
- 2.6.3Beginning of a TCU
- 2.6.4Middle of the initial TCU
- 2.6.5The end of the TCU
- 2.6.6Interactionally achieved MUTs
- 2.7Summary
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