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Chapter 6 - Turn-Claiming and Turn-Holding: Strategy Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2023

Theresa Neumaier
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Dortmund
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This chapter provides a quantitative analysis the strategy clusters Southeast Asian and Caribbean interactants use for claiming or holding a turn at talk. It can be shown that speaker groups essentially use the same strategy combinations, although some differences also become apparent. The second part of the chapter zooms in on the frequency of selected phonetic and syntactic resources and compares their usage across the two speaker groups. Again, both similarities and differences between the speaker groups become apparent; for example, with respect to the usage of tempo downsteps or direct requests. These findings support the notion of a locally inflected conversational infrastructure, which is influenced by both cultural context and variety-specific preferences.

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Conversation in World Englishes
Turn-Taking and Cultural Variation in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English
, pp. 222 - 233
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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