caa a22 4500 386349037 CHVBK 20180307111822.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0047404500013907 doi S0047404500013907 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0047404500013907 Tsui Amy B. M. English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Beyond the adjacency pair [Elektronische Daten] [Amy B. M. Tsui] This article examines the descriptive power of the adjacency pair as a basic unit of conversational organization. It applies the notion to the analysis of conversational data and points out that there are utterances which are important contributions to the conversation and yet for which the notion fails to account. They are utterances which are not the component parts of an adjacency pair and yet form a bounded unit with it. This raises the question of which is more adequate as a basic unit of conversational organization: a three-part exchange or an adjacency pair? This article proposes that it is the former, based on the observation that the third part of an exchange is a very important element of conversational interaction, and that when it does not occur, it is often withheld for social or strategic reasons. The article argues for the nontrivial absence of the third part by showing its relevance of occurrence (Sacks 1972:342). An investigation is made of its functions by examining where, when, and why it does not occur, and where, when, and why it does occur in conversation. The discussion is exemplified by face-to-face and telephone conversation data. (Sociolinguistics, ethnomethodology, discourse analysis, pragmatics) Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Language in Society Cambridge University Press 18/4(1989-12), 545-564 0047-4045 18:4<545 1989 18 LSY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500013907 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500013907 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tsui Amy B. M. English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language in Society Cambridge University Press 18/4(1989-12), 545-564 0047-4045 18:4<545 1989 18 LSY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge