Tanya Stivers
Tanya Stivers appears on this site as first author of the 2009 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper on universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation across ten languages.
Who they are
The work of Tanya Stivers reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Turn-Taking Gap.
Key papers
Stivers, T., Enfield, N. J., Brown, P., Englert, C., Hayashi, M., Heinemann, T., Hoymann, G., Rossano, F., de Ruiter, J. P., Yoon, K.-E., & Levinson, S. C. (2009). Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(26), 10587-10592. What it reports: Compared turn-taking in ten languages, from small communities to major world languages. Every language avoided overlapping talk and kept silence between turns short, and the average gaps differed only slightly from one language to another.
Key ideas
Turn-Taking Gap: The short pause between one speaker's turn and the next, which comparison across ten languages found to be kept brief everywhere.
Sources
- Stivers, T., Enfield, N. J., Brown, P., Englert, C., Hayashi, M., Heinemann, T., Hoymann, G., Rossano, F., de Ruiter, J. P., Yoon, K.-E., & Levinson, S. C. (2009). Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(26), 10587-10592.