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conversational floor: a standalone construct

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Discourse analysis

who holds the right to talk at a moment, distinguishing single-speaker floors from collaborative floors shared by several speakers.

In discourse analysis, conversational floor refers to who holds the right to talk at a moment, distinguishing single-speaker floors from collaborative floors shared by several speakers. This meaning comes from Edelsky (1981) in Language in Society.[1]

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floor2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs clearing3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs discourse6 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Edelsky, C. (1981). Who's got the floor? Language in Society, 10(3), 383-421. https://doi.org/10.1017/s004740450000885x

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