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. 373–375
Subject index
Published online: 24 October 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.38.si
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.38.si
A
- Aboriginal language 30, 52
- abrupt-joins 7, 34, 43–44, 144, 350
- acknowledgment tokens 97, 211, 254, 255, 260, 263, 289, 318
- action ascription18
- action formation28
- activity types 8, 19, 31, 35
- A-event95
- affect, heightened 192, 194, 260, 321, 336, 341, 346, 349
- affective tone254
- affiliation 253–255, 285, 289–290, 318–319, 340
- agreement 40, 68, 80, 239, 319, 322, 325, 346
- alignment 211, 233, 253–254, 255, 318
- announcements 15, 70–71, 128–129, 187, 287–9
- apologies 38, 40
- appointment making19
- argumentation18
- assessments:
90–91, 210–211, 215, 219, 228, 234, 253–254, 318–319, 349
- empathic 211, 233
- negative340
- parallel254
- positive340
- subjunctive254
B
- big packages4
- blinks196
- boundary tones21
- brief comments 91, 254–255
C
- clause-combining and action projection 115fn16
- complaints 39, 59, 143, 192–194, 272–3, 281–282
- conjoining particles 22, 23
- continuers 13, 35, 117, 211, 253–255, 260–263, 268, 289, 318, 352
- contrastive stress 42, 80–83
D
- direction-giving 18, 271, 322
- disaffiliation 40, 65, 66
- disagreement 40, 66, 68, 319, 322, 345
- disalignment 39, 40, 65, 68
- discourse units
8, 15, 19
- closed3
- disfluency7
- dog, interactions with 61–62, 71–73, 201–203, 223–235, 315–318
- dummy turns106
E
- ELAN50
- engagement, heightened 183, 192, 194, 303–4, 306–8, 341, 349
- epistemic: alignment318
- authority 121, 233, 256, 349
- downgrade 119, 262
- primacy 6, 35, 136, 332
- priority 39, 111–2, 113
- rights 182, 332
- stance303
- status 133, 321, 335, 336, 341
- explanations 4, 18, 39, 58–59, 62, 65, 98, 121, 308
- eyebrow: movements254
- flash 255, 256, 259, 296
- raise 255, 259, 289, 296
- eyetracking29
F
- F-formations 31, 106, 183, 187, 195, 293–296, 308
- floor-yielding cues 26, 155, 201
- forward-gesturing 162, 164–5, 166
- funny stories 5, 17, 100, 121, 135–136, 216–218, 274–275
G
- gaze: aversion
7, 28, 30, 235–242
- aversion and dispreferred responses28fn7
- direction 243, 295–296
- gaze direction and head movements243fn24
- gestures: association with spoken language
25, 31, 32, 158
- beat 25, 145, 155–158, 169, 248, 323–324
- depictive 25, 74, 155, 158
- frequency of25
- grooming 25, 158–162, 169, 200, 223–224, 246–248, 259, 280, 284–285, 318
- held, hold phase of 27, 151, 328
- home position 25, 27, 33
- iconic 25, 145, 150, 155, 158, 164, 176, 225, 280, 282, 285, 341
- indexical280
- non-speech-associated25
- peak extension25
- pointing 25, 27, 47, 74, 154–155
- preparation phase of 27, 158
- pre-positioning of26
- pre-turn and SUT37fn10
- rest position 25, 27
- retraction phase of 25, 158
- stroke phase of 25, 27
- sustained 158, 162, 166, 169, 173, 210, 225, 232, 235, 321, 336, 346
- timing of 26, 162
- glottal closure 24, 44, 87, 92–93
- go-ahead 36, 73, 106, 113–114
- Grice’s Cooperative Principle7
H
- head: movement
198, 243, 298, 299, 301
- nods 97, 99, 127, 211, 253–254, 281–282, 319
- shakes319
- heckling 255, 322
- high pitch onset 60, 63–64, 65, 81, 93
- holding pause 24, 44, 89
I
- if-then construction22
- inbreaths, audible 36, 41, 134, 165, 219, 328
- insubordinate construction22
- intonational phrase 21, 24
J
- jokes 15, 38, 91, 127, 210, 218–220, 255, 282–283, 306, 319, 325
L
- latches 24, 43, 45, 87, 136–137, 142
- laughter
13, 136, 166, 217–218, 233, 254, 270,
319
- extended 217, 275
- unilateral 260, 271
- laughter-infused talk 217, 275, 277
- left-push. See abrupt-join
- list projection42
- listing intonation44
M
- minimal responses. See response tokens
- MUTs (multi-unit turns): abandonment of
254, 279, 319, 345, 346,
347
- first-position117
- interrupted 176–179, 195, 233, 278, 349
- natural history of 8, 53, 116
- second-position 117, 129, 175, 218, 252, 260, 266, 268, 313
- without projection 19, 57, 117
- my side telling 41, 254
N
- narratives. See stories
- next-speaker allocation: rule 1a10
- rule 1b11
- rule 1c 11, 16, 19, 20, 44, 57, 117, 129, 137, 139, 142
O
- object manipulation 25, 31, 255
- open surprise face 255, 319
- overlap 33, 78, 107, 169, 176, 198, 328, 336, 341, 345
P
- parallel activities 255, 259
- parallel assessment254
- parallel telling 336, 341
- participation framework 31, 35
- passive recipiency 255, 299, 310
- pitch peak 44, 81
- pivot construction 3, 34, 42, 132
- points of possible completion 1, 3, 17, 27, 43, 79, 132, 145, 249
- posture: backward-leaning
18, 33, 182, 250, 299,
303
- forward-leaning 18, 32, 33fn8, 164, 222, 250, 303
- pragmatic (in)completion 133, 141, 250
- pre pres (preliminaries to preliminaries)20
- pre-expansions 38, 104, 113–114
- preference organisation28
- and dispreferreds 28, 39, 41, 65–66, 118, 288, 301
- and preferreds 66, 95
- presentational construction109
- pre-sequence. See pre-expansion
- progressivity
116, 151, 232, 322
- and clarification questions 266–268
- and epistemic status 328–336
- and facial expressions285
- and gaze aversion 325–328
- and grooming gestures280
- and heckling 322–325
- and heightened affect 341–346
- and jokes255
- and laughter319
- and parallel activities 310, 318
- and side sequences 255, 278
- and word searches 166, 274
- prosody
255, 263–266, 318
- and grammar 21–25
- prospective indexicals 99, 101, 157, 322–324, 345
Q
- questions
23, 30, 39, 88, 104,
118–119, 211–212, 232, 243–245
- post-story254
- rhetorical30
R
- repair: self
76, 78, 141
- self-initiated273
- next-turn 96, 232
- other 98, 107, 113
- repetition39
- report, delivering a19
- requests 38, 101
- response: negative
40, 60, 66–67
- non-type-conforming118
- observer254
- type-conforming119
- response cries 219, 277, 289
- response tokens
8, 14, 17, 35, 97,
117, 219, 289,
318
- acknowledgements 97, 211, 254–255, 268, 289, 318
- change-of-state 212, 292, 299, 303
- continuers 13, 35, 44, 117, 211, 254–255, 266, 289, 319, 352
- newsmarks 97, 217, 318
- return home 210, 220, 222, 225, 228, 233, 250, 336
- rush-through 3, 34, 43–44, 87, 132, 169, 350
S
- side sequences 4, 254, 255, 319
- silence
86, 89, 141–142, 331
- gap 13, 57, 76, 94, 142, 151, 246, 262
- lapse 94, 122, 187
- pause76
- story: coda
172, 210, 214, 215, 222,
233, 241, 250–251
- collaborative telling of19
- preface 6–7, 15, 19, 20, 53, 73, 100–101, 120, 128, 136
- prompt105
- second-position218
- subordinate clause construction 22, 134, 137
- summons
38, 106
- canonical101
- compressed102
- non-canonical114
- SUT (single-unit turn) 1, 2–3, 12, 15, 19, 35, 94, 131, 138, 352
T
- TCU (Turn Constructional Unit): complex
141, 161, 244, 290
- compound22
- transactional segment31
- TRP (Transition Relevance Place): complex 11, 14
- turn: expansion
131, 144
- holding 4, 7, 16, 17, 30, 43, 116, 132, 144, 322
- increment 12, 94, 97, 137, 139, 141–142
- yielding 22, 24, 30, 136, 201
- turn-by-turn talk 2, 4, 15, 29, 116, 203, 210–211, 214, 233–235
- turn-final conjunctional24
- turn-initial particles
8, 21, 124
- so-prefaced 124, 134
- well-prefaced 41, 60, 65–66, 88–89, 92, 107, 119, 128, 152, 237
U
- upshots 39, 85, 173, 210, 212, 234
W
- word searches 2, 158, 166, 254, 319
