StepwiseFootnote

^†I borrow the term “stepwise” from Sacks Citation(1992, pp. 561-569). In discussing topical organization in conversation, Sacks refers to a stepwise move as a practice that “involves connecting what we’ve [the participants] just been talking about to what we’re [the participants] now talking about, though they are different” (p. 566). Although the practice discussed in this paper does not concern topical movements, I use the term to indicate the participant's progressive movements away from the other's previous turn. In Jefferson's (1984) terms, the participant “gradually disengages” from aligning with the previous turn “over a span of talk” (p. 198). While Jefferson Citation(1984) and Heritage and Sefi Citation(1992) use the term “stepwise” to refer to an overall sequence organization that consists of multiple turns across different speakers, in this study, the term refers to the practice within a single speaker's multi-unit turn.

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