Vivas have multiple functions in academia, but their main goal is completing thesis evaluation. At the heart of this evaluation is a series of criticisms and their responsive turns by which participants talk vivas as institution into being (Heritage, 1997). Turn-taking is one of the many ways vivas are talked into being. This study drew upon conversation analysis to look into the turn allocatio...

Describing routes is an easy everyday task for people who know the environment well. However, strategies exist also for situations where only incomplete knowledge is available. We present a study eliciting verbalized route plans and thinkaloud data from novices and experts who were asked to find and describe routes in a complex building. The spatial descriptions were analyzed relating the level...

Turn-taking is usually considered to follow a simple set of rules, enacted through perhaps more complicated system signals. The most significant aspect the turn-taking process that, in cases, it proceeds very smooth fashion. Speakers signal each other that they wish either yield or take turn syntactic, pragmatic, and prosodic means. In this paper, I explore how develops two different sets Spani...

Turn-taking during verbal interactions is a linguistic and cultural pattern that regulates who to speak conversation when. Conversational turn-taking includes the length of time occurs after speaker says something before person spoken responds (Ryan & Forrest, 2019). Within academy at this current 2020, diverse knowledge holders, both Indigenous Non-Indigenous, are actively trying share mer...

This paper takes a conversational analysis (CA) or sequential approach to multilingualism document and analyse classroom participation structures created by specific types of turn-taking languaging practices. The setting was selected Grade 6 9 English language English-medium content lessons in rural classrooms the Eastern Cape. Three named varieties are used these classrooms, i.e., isiMpondo, i...

Languages differ in the way that speakers coordinate their interaction moment-by-moment, and this can cause intercultural misunderstandings. We explore this in the domain of listening behavior. One way that listeners show interest and attention is by producing back-channel feedback (short utterances such as okay and hmm) at appropriate times, and these times are determined, in part, by the inte...