Between and within: Alternative sequential treatments of continuers and assessments
@article{Goodwin1986BetweenAW, title={Between and within: Alternative sequential treatments of continuers and assessments}, author={Charles Goodwin}, journal={Human Studies}, year={1986}, volume={9}, pages={205-217} }
ConclusionOnce assessments and continuers are focussed on as distinguishable phenomena it becomes clear that they differ from each other not just in the details of their sequential placement within an extended turn, but in other significant ways as well.First, though assessments can take the form of talk with clear lexical content (for example `Oh wow' and assessment adjectives such as ‘beautiful’), they can also be done with sounds such as ‘Ah:::’ whose main function seems to be the carrying…
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