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Turn taking mechanisms in conversation. From the amount of conversations we witness on a daily basis we can see that they are governed by some sort of mechanism or rules. From these observations, it becomes clear that turn taking is a major constituent of conversation, with the arrangement of talk across two participants. Levinson (1983: 296) explains that, despite the 'obvious' nature of turn taking (i.e. A speaks, then B speaks, then A speaks again) the way in which distribution is achieved is "Anything but obvious". He states that "Less (and often considerably less) then 5 per cent of the speech stream is delivered in overlap, yet gaps between one person speaking and another starting are frequently measurable in just a few micro-seconds". This phenomenon is of interest to pragmaticians who, through the practise of conversational analysis have studied conversation on the micro-pragmatic level and have sought to theorise the mechanisms...

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