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Conversation analysis presumes that the participants in a conversation are playing a "language game," in which they take turns and make moves. We can quickly see some of the "devices" people use to work out the turns of the game, allocating turns and selecting speaker with devices like the adjacency pair: linked speech acts such as question-answer, greeting-farewell, and invitation-acceptance that a speaker uses to establish expectations about who will speak next and what they will do. (...) Linguistics Study, Speech Act, Question And Answer, Work Out, The Game, To Work, Speaker, Acting, Affirmations

Conversation analysis presumes that the participants in a conversation are playing a "language game," in which they take turns and make moves. We can quickly see some of the "devices" people use to work out the turns of the game, allocating turns and selecting speaker with devices like the adjacency pair: linked speech acts such as question-answer, greeting-farewell, and invitation-acceptance that a speaker uses to establish expectations about who will speak next and what they will do. (...)

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