Turn Construction Unit

Turn Construction Unit

A turn construction unit (TCU) is the fundamental segment of speech in a conversation, as analyzed in conversation analysis.

The idea was introduced in (Sacks, Schegloff, & Jefferson 1974) and is meant to describe pieces of conversation which may comprise an entire turn. The end of a TCU, called a "transition relevance place" (TRP), marks a point where the turn may be go to another speaker, or the present speaker may continue with another TCU.

References

Sacks H, Schegloff E A, Jefferson G. "A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation." "Language" 50 (1974) pp.696--735


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