Turn-taking strategies in English and Vietnamese casual conversations

• Main Author: Nguyễn, Thị Mai Hữu
• Other Authors: Nguyễn, Hòa
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: ĐHNN 2017
• Subjects: Tiếng Anh; Tiếng Việt; Đàm thoại
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/40016
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson (1974) stated that “the organization of taking turns to talk is fundamental to conversation, as well as to other speech-exchange systems.” Since these scholars developed a systematic mechanism of turn-taking in English conversations in 1974, much research has been conducted on the field and turntaking has become a central issue in pragmatics and conversation analysis. Under the scope of conversation analysis, this M.A thesis is conducted to discuss the turntaking mechanism in general and the turn-taking strategies in particular in casual Vietnamese conversations.