The purpose of this paper is to describe one aspect of the organization of participation in interaction. Especially, I investigate how participants reorganize their participation by focusing on a transitional phase in interaction. The ""transitional phase"" in interaction is part of interaction where some changes happen to participants' distribution of orientation. To investigate what happens during the transitional phase, this study focuses on the procedure for leaving the current conversation. Based on detailed analyses of the practice in leaving the current activity, this paper argues that displaying double orientation to the current and next activity is one characteristic feature for accomplishing the smooth transition in an interaction, and that the departure from the ongoing interaction is finely coordinated with talkin-interaction. Moreover, there is a possibility that the utterance is oriented to the ongoing activity and the bodily movement is oriented to another activity. Finally, I discuss the contribution of distributing orientation to a successful interaction.
@InProceedings{KODA18.8, author = {Mizuki Koda}, title = {Language and Body as Resources for Distributing Orientation: The Organization of Participation in Leaving the Ongoing Conversation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Hanae Koiso and Patrizia Paggio}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-16-0}, language = {english} }
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