Discourse Approach to Turn-taking

3.3

Analysis of Statement-Form Utterances

Statement-form utterances, utterances with a falling tone, and statement-form

utterances with a falling tone mostly elicit turn-taking and back-channel responses. In

the sections below, the relation between the last tone choice of the speaker’s

statement-form utterance and the first tone choice of the next speaker’s utterance in

turn-taking and turn-holding, and the functions of the tone choice are analyzed in

detail, referring to the context of interaction and the role-relationship between the

participants. The combinations of alphabet and number in parentheses in examples

indicate the scene (S), turn (T), back-channel (BC), and utterance (U) in the table in

the Appendix.

3.3.1