ABSTRACT

This article examines sniffing in everyday conversations. It builds on prior conversation analytic research on respiratory conduct, which has shown how things like inbreaths, sighs, and laughter are delicately organized and consequential components of the social occasions into which they figure. Sniffing—the swift, audible, intake of breath through the nasal passage—is analyzed by reference to its sequential placement in talk. Using a collection of 70 cases of sniffs in naturally occurring conversations, two recurrent uses of sniffing are described. Sniffs placed before or during a turn-at-talk serve to delay turn progression. And sniffs placed in the postcompletion space of a turn can indicate its completion. This association between postcompletion sniffing and turn completion is further supported through a comparison with postcompletion inbreaths. By situating sniffing in its sequential contexts, the organization of breathing is shown to be bound up with the organization of speaking. Data are in American and British English.

摘要

本文研究了日常对话中的嗅探。它建立在对呼吸行为的先前对话分析研究的基础上，该研究表明，诸如吸气，叹息和笑声之类的事物是如何精心组织的以及它们所涉及的社交场合的必然组成部分。嗅探-通过鼻腔快速，可听见的呼吸-通过参考其在讲话中的顺序放置来进行分析。在自然发生的对话中使用70种嗅探案例的集合，描述了嗅探的两种反复使用。说话前或说话时的嗅觉会延迟转弯的进程。在转弯完成后的空间中闻到的气味可以表明其完成。通过与完成后呼吸的比较，进一步支持了完成后嗅探和转弯完成之间的这种关联。通过将嗅探置于其连续的语境中，显示出呼吸的组织与言语的组织联系在一起。数据使用美国和英国英语。