Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
  • 1.1. Orientation
  • 1.2. Turn organization in Mandarin conversation
  • 1.2.1. Basic organization of turn-taking in Mandarin conversation
  • 1.2.2. Turn projection
  • 1.3. Multimodal resources in turn organization
  • 1.3.1. Syntax and turn organization
  • 1.3.2. Prosody and turn organization
  • 1.3.3. Body movements and turn organization
  • 1.3.4. Interaction of multimodal resources and turn organization
  • 1.4. Chapter summary and overview of the book
  • ch. 2 Preliminaries and methodology
  • 2.1. data
  • 2.2. Data transcription
  • 2.3. Methodological approach of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics
  • 2.3.1. Conversation analysis
  • 2.3.2. Interactional linguistics
  • 2.4. Summary
  • ch. 3 Syntax in turn organization
  • 3.1. Syntactic structure and turn construction
  • 3.1.1. Topic-comment structure and turn construction
  • 3.1.1.1. Placement of next-turn onset
  • 3.1.1.2. Placement of acknowledgement tokens
  • 3.1.1.3. Topic-comment structure revisited
  • 3.1.2. Copula-complement structure and turn construction
  • 3.1.3. Local management of syntactic structuring in turn construction
  • 3.1.4. Interim summary and discussion
  • 3.2. Syntactic features and turn completion
  • 3.2.1. Word order and turn completion
  • 3.2.2. Utterance-final particles and turn completion
  • 3.2.3. Lexcio-syntactic constructions and turn completion
  • 3.3. Summary
  • ch. 4 Prosody in turn organization
  • 4.1. Prosody and turn construction
  • 4.1.1. Definition of intonation units
  • 4.1.2. Intonation units in Mandarin conversation
  • 4.1.2.1. Internal criterion
  • 4.1.2.2. External criteria
  • 4.1.3. Intonation units and turn-constructional units
  • 4.1.3.1. Intonation units and turn-constructional units in single-TCU turns
  • 4.1.3.2. Intonation units and turn-constructional units in multi-TCU turns
  • 4.1.4. Interim summary
  • 4.2. Prosody and turn completion
  • 4.2.1. Preliminaries to analysis
  • 4.2.2. Prosodic features of turn completion
  • 4.2.2.1. possible last accent and turn completion
  • 4.2.2.2. Discussions of contingent cases
  • 4.2.2.3. Interim summary
  • 4.3. Summary
  • ch. 5 Body movements in turn organization
  • 5.1. Preliminaries: Organizational feature of body movements
  • 5.2. Hand movements and turn organization
  • 5.2.1. Gesture units
  • 5.2.2. Gesture units and turn construction
  • 5.2.2.1. Gesture units and single-TCU turns
  • 5.2.2.2. Gesture units and multi-TCU turns
  • 5.2.3. Hand movements and turn completion
  • 5.2.4. Interactional evidence for the relevance of hand movements
  • 5.2.5. Interim summary
  • 5.3. Postural shifts and turn organization
  • 5.3.1. Postural shifts
  • 5.3.2. Postural shifts and larger interactional units
  • 5.3.2.1. Postural shifts and extended turns
  • 5.3.2.2. Postural shifts and sequences
  • 5.3.3. Interim summary
  • 5.4. Summary
  • ch. 6 Interplay of syntax, prosody, body movements and pragmatic resources in turn organization
  • 6.1. Convergence of syntax, prosody, body movements and pragmatic resources in turn organization
  • 6.2. Divergence of syntax, prosody, body movements and pragmatic resources in turn organization
  • 6.2.1. role of syntax and pragmatic resources in the divergence
  • 6.2.2. role of prosody and pragmatic resources in the divergence
  • 6.2.3. role of body movements and pragmatic resources in the divergence
  • 6.2.4. role of pragmatic resources in the divergence
  • 6.3. Management of divergence and contingency
  • 6.4. Summary
  • ch. 7 Conclusion
  • 7.1. Summary
  • 7.2. Implications and future research directions.