Prior to this extract, Jill has initiated a topic by writing and then reading aloud the name Eleanor, but has not conveyed to David what it is about Eleanor that she wishes to discuss.
The authors went on to demonstrate how test questions could be targeted for elimination via interaction-focused intervention, such that the wife of an English-speaking man with aphasia was trained to leave silences at points where topic change was possible, instead of launching a test question, thus enabling her husband to initiate a topic.
Conversation analysis researchers have found that the mutual (versus unilateral) initiation of a topic is the preferred procedure to initiate new topics in mundane, non-institutional conversations.
08 (4.2) 09 Fra: °yes because (there are) some 10 times I feel a little ba:d 11 and so:° (5.1) In these three examples, a participant (a client in Extract 1; a staff member in Extracts 2 and 3) employs a practice to initiate a new topic.
This is followed by examples of sequences occurring in the talk of two of these speakers that result in different, and more limited, turn construction opportunities, namely "test" questions asked in order to initiate a new topic of talk, despite the conversation partner knowing the answer.
Internet payday lending, according to the report, was "not a focus" of Operation Choke Point when it was initiated, and became a topic of interest after the operation was underway.
By displaying availability to engage in talk about the topic proposed through a topic initiating practice, the participants in examples 1 3 make a bid for a topical line to be generated and, thus, make relevant for their interlocutors to either accept or reject the bid.
His first work was on the theory of determinants of infinite matrices, a topic initiated by the French mathematician Henri Poincaré.
Group discussions were initiated by use of a topic guide.
In 79 99% of the visits, the counsellor initiated the discussion of a topic, except for emotional consequences of DNA testing, where counsellors took the initiative in just over half (31 out of 53; 59%) of the visits in which it was discussed (not in the table).
