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Second Part

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A second part is the second utterance in an adjacency pair.

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Dispreferred Second Part Preferred Second Part

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Utterance Adjacency Pair

Sources 1

Levinson 1983, 303–304

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This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003. About the library ↗ · Ordering information ↗

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