Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of tables and figures xi
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2. Preliminaries 13
7. Chapter 3. Pivot constructions as a syntactic resource for turn-taking: Managing overlap 39
8. Chapter 4. Pivots at sequential and topic boundaries: Steering the emerging direction of the talk 69
9. Chapter 5. Pivot constructions as a resource for managing repair: Searching for a word 97
10. Chapter 6. Pivot constructions in embedded self-correction: Changes in action and epistemic stance 137
11. Chapter 7. Concluding discussion 169
12. Appendix A. Transcription conventions 183
13. Appendix B. Abbreviations for grammatical descriptions 185
14. References 187
15. Name index 205
16. Subject index 207