Abstract This paper examines the Open Hand Prone ‘vertical palm’ as a resource for participants in conversation for displaying their treatment of a co-participant’s – or their own – turn/action as interruptive. Through this practice participants can manage turn-taking by making it relevant for the co-participant to stop talking. The data for this study consist of video-recorded conversations in English and Finnish from domestic and institutional settings, as well as broadcast talk. Using multimodal conversation analysis, this study shows that the gesture occurs in situations involving overlapping/competitive talk or incompatible embodied activities that somehow affect the progressivity of the ongoing talk. This paper complements previous research on gesture studies and interaction by investigating the function these gestures take in stopping/interrupting a co-participant’s turn-at-talk across multiple settings, and by studying how the gesture functions as a part of a practice which has direct social consequences on the local organization of turn-taking.

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Open Hand Prone 作为多模式声称中断的资源

摘要 本文研究了 Open Hand Prone 的“垂直手掌”作为对话参与者的一种资源，用于展示他们对共同参与者或他们自己的转身/动作作为干扰的处理。通过这种练习，参与者可以通过让共同参与者停止说话来管理轮换。本研究的数据包括来自国内和机构环境的英语和芬兰语视频对话以及广播谈话。使用多模态对话分析，这项研究表明，手势发生在涉及重叠/竞争性谈话或不相容的具体活动的情况下，这些活动以某种方式影响正在进行的谈话的进展性。