Turn-construction(al) units - TCUs

Turn-construction(al) units are the primary building blocks of everyday language use. Every time we speak, we use these components to 'construct' our turns, and we project and recognize possible TCU ending points as part of understanding when it's our's or someone else's turn to talk. Any speaker of a language already knows how to use TCUs - this is an introduction to what they are, and how we use them.
Also probably the only time someone says 'dun dun dun' about TCUs to date.
Some references!
Start here:
Sacks, H., Schegloff, E. A., & Jefferson, G. (1974). A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation. Language, 50(4), 696. doi.org/10.2307/412243
A very small selection of more studies:
Couper-Kuhlen, E. (2012). Turn Continuation and Clause Combinations. Discourse Processes, 49(3-4), 273-299. doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2012...
Goodwin, C. (1980). Restarts, Pauses, and the Achievement of a State of Mutual Gaze at Turn-Beginning. Sociological Inquiry, 50(3-4), 272-302. doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682X.1...
Keevallik, L. (2014). Turn organization and bodily-vocal demonstrations. Journal of Pragmatics, 65, 103-120. doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2014...
Laakso, M., & Sorjonen, M.-L. (2010). Cut-off or particle-Devices for initiating self-repair in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 42(4), 1151-1172. doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009...
Lerner, G. H. (2002). Turn-sharing: The choral co-production of talk-in-interaction. In C. E. Ford, B. A. Fox, & S. A. Thompson (Eds.), The Language of Turn and Sequence (pp. 225-256). Oxford University Press.
Mazeland, H. (2007). Parenthetical sequences. Journal of Pragmatics, 39(10), 1816-1869. doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2007...
Mondada, L. (2007). Multimodal resources for turn-taking: Pointing and the emergence of possible next speakers. Discourse Studies, 9(2), 194-225. doi.org/10.1177/1461445607075346
Szczepek Reed, B., & Raymond, G. (Eds.). (2013). Units of talk-Units of action. John Benjamins.
Selting, M. (2001). Fragments of units as deviant cases of unit production in conversational talk. In M. Selting & E. Couper-Kuhlen (Eds.), Studies in Interactional Linguistics (pp. 229-258). John Benjamins Publishing.
And for more on Nigel Farage laughing in overlap:
Demasi, M. A., & Tileagă, C. (2019). Rhetoric of derisive laughter in political debates on the EU. Qualitative Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/qup0000156
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Fascinating. Now I’m thinking of how this applies to Zoom meetings where there’s a slight delay, and to “manterrupting” in work meetings, and of course I’m also thinking about Frozen, and sandwiches… thanks Em!

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[@Fatima-ji7hc]

Hello , thanks for the explanations
Would you please tell me the software you use for transcribing? I really need to know 🙏

[@emdoesca]

I wish I could say something magical that makes it easy, but I use Word. I listen a lot, and I transcribe it. I use Audacity or Audition to listen more easily to audio files & measure audio timings, and I use ELAN to more easily segment, time & view visual elements. But it really is just manual labour.

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[@jipangoo]

I'm not sure we'd say 'syntactic clause'
Just clause is ok