TRANSITIONAL REGULARITIES FOR CASUAL OKAY USAGES

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BEACH, WA
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10.1016/0378-2166(93)90092-4
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H0 [语言学];
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030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
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An understanding of ''Okay'' usages in conversation requires analytic considerations extending beyond free-standing and non-continuative deployments. Relying on previous findings on how recipients and current speakers organize such activities as phone openings and closings, the present analysis addresses a wider variety of interactional environments in establishing certain predominant and thus fundamental features. Those addressed herein include how recipients and current speakers rely on ''Okay'' pivotally, at or near transition/opportunity spaces: Decidedly in response to prior talk, yet also in transitionally relevant ('state of readiness') ways via shifts/movements to next-positioned matters. Though recipients or current speakers may (in next turn) treat prior ''Okay'' usages as non-continuative, and/or move to sequentially delete the actions ''Okay'' was taken to be projecting (i.e., 'Okay + [fuller turn]'), just what participants appear to be prefacing or setting-up via ''Okay'' is recurrently (and eventually) apparent.
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