Chapter 4. Securing another TCU

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. 56–115

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Chapter 4
Securing another TCU

Published online: 24 October 2025

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4.1The suppression of transition relevance
4.2Turn-claiming resources deployed in pre-beginning positions
- 4.2.1Audible inbreath
- 4.2.2Pre-TCU gesturing
4.3Turn-claiming resources deployed at the beginning of the initial TCU
- 4.3.1High pitch onset
- 4.3.2Misplacement markers
- 4.3.3Turn-initial particles
4.4Floor-holding resources deployed in the middle of the initial TCU
- 4.4.1Gesture sustained across TRPs
- 4.4.2Gaze aversion across TRPs
- 4.4.3Forward posture shifts across TRPs
- 4.4.4Markedly first verbs
- 4.4.5Pivot constructions
- 4.4.6Contrastive stress
4.5Floor-holding resources deployed at the end of the initial TCU
- 4.5.1Rush-throughs
- 4.5.2Suppression of a pitch peak
- 4.5.3Abrupt-joins
- 4.5.4Latching
- 4.5.5The holding pause
4.6Interactionally achieved MUTs: Jointly by speaker and recipient(s)
- 4.6.1MUTs achieved interactionally via rule 1c
- 4.6.2MUTs achieved interactionally with minimal responses
4.7The entire first TCU projects a MUT
- 4.7.1Story prefaces
- 4.7.2“Non-canonical” summonses
- 4.7.3Preliminaries to preliminaries
- 4.7.4A subtype of prospective indexical
- 4.7.5List projections
- 4.7.6Repetition of a prior speaker’s formulation
4.8Conclusion
Notes