Rather it is likely that the functional role of instances of language, gesture, and inscription shift fluidly for these learners as they move between individual reflection, self-explanation, attending to their interlocutor, and working to construct inferences in their dyad.
(Khalilzad said that as far back as 2002 he had seen Talabani as a potential President. "He's a good interlocutor; we work well together," Khalilzad told me. "I'm prejudiced, though — he's a friend of mine").
Through our interviews and observations, it became clear that power, creativity, and self-interest may be (and often were) elements of our interlocutors' work and self-image but that other factors were involved as well.
The presence of that Interrogative obliges interlocutors to work to rule all but one Proposition that is a complete answer to the Interrogative.
Washington and other Western governments, including the E.U., refuse to directly engage with Hamas, working through interlocutors such as Egypt when necessary.
So, in terms of the positioning of audience members, the strategy here construes an equal status with interlocutors in terms of working together on a difficult task, one of which is to decide what the concept of 'task' means!
In conversation, the meaning of linguistic expressions such as "the red couch" is often ambiguous, such that interlocutors need to work together to make sure their interpretations are aligned (Pickering and Garrod 2004).
He kept his hands busy with his pipe, which Gevisser sees as "more than just a way of focusing the mind: it created a scrim between him and his interlocutor, allowing him to work with ideas, unhindered by the mess of human interaction" Gevisser says that he tried to avoid making the book about his own interpretation of Mbeki's behavior, choosing instead to offer a variety of perspectives.
"They will keep you working on a deal and then start from scratch with a new interlocutor.
Lower-Saxony: one practising Muslim chaplain, two Christian chaplains working in the prison of Hanover, five representatives of Muslim organisations, the official interlocutor at the Ministry for Justice for the contract about Muslim prison chaplaincy (interviewed twice).
I spent 15 years at the centre, working alongside people I regarded not merely as colleagues but as friends, political allies and intellectual interlocutors.
