Turn taking
Last night there was a segment on the Daily Show called “Nip/Talk” in which a correspondent interviewed first a dermatologist and then a speech coach. The second half involved instruction on the importance of signaling your end of turn in an interview, reminiscent of the Beattie 1982 paper we read in Speech Prosody this semester, where the conversation styles of Margaret Thatcher and Jim Callahan were compared.
emma :: May.16.2007 :: misc, phonology, phonetics, linguistics, pop-culture :: No Comments »