2.1.2 Transition Relevance
To speak of a unit we have to be able to identify the boundaries. In the same way, a turn-constructional unit is identifiable by breaks, points where somebody else could appropriately take a turn in speaking. These points are called transition relevance places (TRPs).
Where in the following turn might it have been appropriate for somebody else to take a turn in speaking?
To speak of a unit we have to be able to identify the boundaries. In the same way, a turn-constructional unit is identifiable by breaks, points where somebody else could appropriately take a turn in speaking. These points are called transition relevance places (TRPs).
Where in the following turn might it have been appropriate for somebody else to take a turn in speaking?
Text 2: Pridham, (2001: 14)
Richard: I’ll tell you one thing when we moved to London and we’d been here for about a month and we were just driving around looking at the sights and we were driving past Buckingham Palace right and Chloe’s in the back of the car right this is so funny um and she said there it is there’s Buckingham Palace woah woah oh we should open the window oh and the Queen lives there oh look the flag’s up the Queen’s in there now and she said is that the Queen’s house then? And we said yeah she said ooh fancy building a palace next to the main road
Richard: I’ll tell you one thing when we moved to London and we’d been here for about a month and we were just driving around looking at the sights and we were driving past Buckingham Palace right and Chloe’s in the back of the car right this is so funny um and she said there it is there’s Buckingham Palace woah woah oh we should open the window oh and the Queen lives there oh look the flag’s up the Queen’s in there now and she said is that the Queen’s house then? And we said yeah she said ooh fancy building a palace next to the main road
Answer
I’ll tell you
I’ll tell you one thing
I’ll tell you one thing when we moved to London
I’ll tell you one thing when we moved to London and we’d been here for about a month
I’ll tell you one thing when we moved to London and we’d been here for about a month and we were just driving around
I’ll tell you one thing
I’ll tell you one thing when we moved to London
I’ll tell you one thing when we moved to London and we’d been here for about a month
I’ll tell you one thing when we moved to London and we’d been here for about a month and we were just driving around
Although speaker change could have occurred at any of these transition relevance places it does not.