Talking Back: "Small" Interactional Response Tokens in Everyday Conversation

By Michael Mccarthy. 2003

231 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory, Human-Computer Interaction

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a5e012a634718f016ad976b4b502849f934900d7

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In Language and Linguistics

1. K. Rajagopalan
2. Steve Walsh
3. Michael McCarthy
4. Olcay Sert
5. Li Li

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. K. Rajagopalan
2. Steve Walsh
3. Michael McCarthy

In Human-Computer Interaction

1. K. Rajagopalan
2. Steve Walsh
3. Michael McCarthy

Citations in the corpus

• Spoken fluency revisited (2010, background): “…54.202.195.117, on 12 Apr 2017 at 20:43:01, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. speakers have a responsibility to fill silences, even if only through backchannel responses, or non-minimal but non-floor-grabbing responses (McCarthy, 2003).”
• The Routledge handbook of English language teaching (2018, background): “Teaching does not just imply acquiring an object that is systematic or even promoting communicative transactions in the classroom: SCT-inspired transformative teaching is the activity of promoting conceptual reflection (i.e. the internalisation and thus transformation of new ideas through thinking…”
• CONCEPTUALISING CLASSROOM INTERACTIONAL COMPETENCE (2012, background): “These overlaps and interruptions are examples of what McCarthy (2003) refers to as good ‘listenership’: they signal to a speaker that she has been understood, that the channels are open and that the communication is working well.”