Discourse as an interactional achievement : Some uses of "Uh huh" and other things that come between sentences

By E. Schegloff. 1982

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Talking Back: "Small" Interactional Response Tokens in Everyday Conversation (2003, background): “Schegloff (1982) also observed the multifunctioning of response tokens such as " yeah " : They not only mark acknowledgment and confirm understanding but may also express agreement, and in this way, social action is coordinated and fine-tuned on several levels simultaneously, one of the main…”
LEARNING AS CHANGING PARTICIPATION: DISCOURSE ROLES IN ESL WRITING CONFERENCES (2004, background): “His minimal responses of yeah seem to be examples of continuer tokens that yield the right to speak to the interlocutor (Schegloff, 1981).”
Form and Functions of ‘Slut Bashing’ in Male Identity Constructions in15-Year-Olds (2004, methodology): “…and techniques for this type of analysis are laid out in classic conversation analytic work [Sacks, 1995; Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson, 1974; Schegloff, 1982, 1997] and are applied for identity analysis [cf. McIlvenny, 2002a], an arena that was originally considered ‘non-CA purposes’ [ten…”
‘Articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of others’ talk (2010, background): “There are a number of documented ways in which recipients may indicate that the turn-so-far is not response-ready or incomplete, including ‘continuers’ (Schegloff, 1982) and ‘increment elicitors’ (Lerner, 2004).”
Talking With Your Mouth Full: Gustatory Mmms and the Embodiment of Pleasure (2002, background): “The ability of the mmm expression to display agreement has already been examined (Gardner, 1997; Koole, 1998; Schegloff, 1982), but the reference to taste or pleasure in some sense extends this.”
The Embodied and Negotiated Production of Assessments in Instructed Actions (2009, background): “*bends down on his left—-> 10 Dea: >°donc y a plusieurs [( )° ] 3See Schegloff (1982), Goodwin (1986), and Jefferson (1978, 1983, 1984) on the specific sequential positions of tokens like “mhm,” “yeah,” and assessments.”
“No no no” and Other Types of Multiple Sayings in Social Interaction (2004, background): “may have prosodic resources that can override syntactic boundaries (e.g., phrasal or sentential boundaries) not only at or near transition relevance places as discussed by Schegloff (1982) and Auer (1996) but also at turn beginning.”
Repetition in Conversation: A Look at "First and Second Sayings" (2000, background): “It can take “work,” i.e., praxis, to get more than one TCU into a turn (Schegloff, 1982).”