3rd Turn Continuation Workshop
in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

September 5-6, 2009 - The University of Alberta

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PROGRAM (TENTATIVE)

9/5 (SAT)

9:40-9:50      Introduction

9:50-10:50     KK Luke (Nanyang Technological University / University of Hong Kong)
               Post-Turn-Completion Constituents in Cantonese: Forms and Functions

10:50-11:05    Break

11:05-11:50    Jack Sidnell (University of Toronto)
               Other-initiated increments (in the talk of children and adults)

11:50-1:20     Lunch

1:20-2:05      Wei Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)
               Latching as a turn-holding device and its function in retrospective turn continuation: Data
               from Mandarin conversation

2:05-2:20      Break

2:20-2:50      Ross Krekoski (Nanyang Technological University)
               Clausal increments in Japanese

2:50-3:35      Tsuyoshi Ono (University of Alberta) and Sandra A. Thompson (University of California,
               Santa Barbara)
               Japanese negotiation through emerging final particles in everyday talk

3:35-4:00      General Discussion

7:00           Dinner

9/6 (SUN)

9:15-10:00     Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (University of Helsinki)
               Clause combining as turn continuation

10:00-10:15    Break

10:15-11:00    Ritva Laury (University of Helsinki)
               Finnish jos ‘if’ -conditional clauses as suspended clause constructions

11:00-11:45    Geneviève Maheux-Pelletier (University of Alberta)
               Call repair to the rescue, or how to deal with pedagogical tasks that trigger conflicting
               identities in classroom second language talk

11:45-1:15     Lunch

1:15-2:00      Hiromi Aoki (University of Alberta)
               A multimodal analysis of turn continuation: Interaction employing the response token nn and
               head nods in Japanese casual conversation

2:00-2:15      Break

2:15-2:45      Yumi Sasaki (University of Alberta) and Tsuyoshi Ono (University of Alberta)
               The so-called conjunction dakara ‘therefore/so’ as an emergent discourse particle in
               Japanese conversation

2:45-3:30      Cecilia Ford (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sandra A. Thompson (University of
               California, Santa Barbara), and Veronika Drake (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
               Turn continuation and visual-bodily behavior

3:30-3:45      Break

3:45-          General Discussion

7:00           Dinner


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