Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Sequential departures
6. Chapter 2. Nu -prefaced responses in Russian conversation 25
7. Chapter 3. Bueno -, pues -, and bueno-pues -prefacing in Spanish conversation 59
8. Chapter 4. Two types of trouble with questions 97
9. Chapter 5. Diverging from ‘business as usual’ 119
10. Chapter 6. Turn-initial particles in English 155
11. Epistemic and Related Issues
12. Chapter 7. A -prefaced responses to inquiry in Japanese 193
13. Chapter 8. Treating something as self-evident 225
14. Chapter 9. Reformulating prior speaker’s turn in Finnish 251
15. Chapter 10. Turn design and progression 287
16. Chapter 11. Making up one’s mind in second position 315
17. Sequence Management
18. Chapter 12. Calibrating an agnostic epistemic stance in Swedish conversation 341
19. Chapter 13. Turn-initial voilà in closings in French 371
20. Chapter 14. Turn-initial naja in German 413
21. Chapter 15. Justifying departures from progressivity 445
22. Appendix 477
23. Author Index 481
24. Subject index 485