CMN 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Insertion Sequence, Communicative Action, Indirect Speech
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An uterance"s posiions within such a sequence has a very powerful inluence on how it will be interpreted. Design uterances due to seings, what has been said, what they anicipate might be said later, who is talking to whom and why, what the intended recipients probably know, what they have just said and so on. Shaping of uterances to it the needs and backgrounds of the paricipants who will likely interpret those uterances is called recipient design. The way an uterance is interpreted (and the way it is designed) depends overwhelmingly on where it is located in a sequence of acions. There should be a second acion ater the irst, when it does not occur, paricipants behave as it should have. Although not all segments of conversaion are composed of adjacency pairs, some segments are built by stringing several adjacency pairs together.
