CHAPTER THREE
TURN CONSTRUCTION AND EMBODIED ACTIONS
Chapter Three, "Turn Construction and Embodied Actions", makes explicit a preliminary claim introduced in Chapter One. Proposition One (of three presented in this study) states that embodied actions constitute a fifth domain of turn-construction unit types within the turn-taking system. This examination of how embodied actions function in the constitution and organization of turns in interaction is specifically situated within the theoretical and empirical framework of the turn-taking system. Chapter Three includes empirical evidence that embodied actions are used as and treated as valid turns by co-participants.
Chapter Three has four sections:
Section 3.1 Embodied Actions and The Turn-Taking System
Section 3.2 Embodied Actions in Adjacency Pair Sequences
Section 3.3 When Silences Are Not Pauses
Section 3.4 Visual Attention: Co-Participants Show and See