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2. English language - Wikipedia

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   English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

3. Conversation - Wikipedia

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   Conversation is interactive communication between two or more people. The development of conversational skills and etiquette is an important part of socialization. The development of conversational skills in a new language is a frequent focus of language teaching and learning. Conversation analysis is a branch of sociology which studies the ...

4. Turn-taking - Wikipedia

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   Turn-taking. Turn-taking is a type of organization in conversation and discourse where participants speak one at a time in alternating turns. In practice, it involves processes for constructing contributions, responding to previous comments, and transitioning to a different speaker, using a variety of linguistic and non-linguistic cues.

5. Backchannel (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   The term "backchannel" was designed to imply that there are two channels of communication operating simultaneously during a conversation. [3] The predominant channel is that of the speaker who directs primary speech flow. The secondary channel of communication (or backchannel) is that of the listener which functions to provide continuers or ...

6. Co-construction (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Co-construction (linguistics) In linguistics, a co-construction is a single syntactic entity in conversation and discourse that is uttered by more than two or more speakers. [1] Other names for this concept include collaboratively built sentences, [2] sentences-in-progress, [3] and joint utterance constructions. [4]

7. The Conversation (website) - Wikipedia

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   The Conversation is a network of nonprofit media outlets publishing news stories and research reports online, with accompanying expert opinion and analysis. [1] [2] Articles are written by academics and researchers under a Creative Commons license, allowing reuse without modification.