Topic nomination and topic pursuit

The Epistemic Engine: Sequence Organization and Territories of Knowledge

“…Across all the cases involving the use of "sequence closing thirds" to terminate these epistemically driven sequences, the interaction progresses through a process of "boundaried" or "segmented" topic organization (Button & Casey, 1985;Jefferson, 1984).…”

“…In sum, just as speakers may deploy claims of K− epistemic status to initiate sequences, so too "change of state" proposals and assessments may invoke epistemic claims to close them. Across all the cases involving the use of "sequence-closing thirds" to terminate these epistemically driven sequences, the interaction progresses through a process of "boundaried" or "segmented" topic organization (Button & Casey, 1985;Jefferson, 1984). Once sequences are launched, however, they can be expanded stepwise by turns that index a K− position in more subtle and indirect ways.…”

A Methodology for the Identification of Topic Transitions in Interaction

“…Goutsos (1997) or not a topic), while others focus on the "how" of topic (what participants do when they "do topic", and how they manage, perceive and cue it). Representative of the "how" approach to topic is the CA methodology, which took up the study of topic, but was careful to analyze it in conj unction with the structure of interaction, especially sequential organization (Jeff erson, 1984;Casey, 1984 and1985;Maynard, 1980;Holt & Drew, 2005): "In accordance […] with the basic CA principle of focusing on what a given bit of talk is doing rather than what it is about, […] we will consider the various practices of speaking which conversationalists use to generate, to locate, to pursue and to resist talk on a topic. These can be thought of as practices of talk" (Sidnell, 2010: 226).…”

Topic Transition Strategies for an Information-Giving Agent

“…Similarly, Button and Casey (1985) define two global ways of introducing a topic that is not related to the prior topic in a conversation: by a topic initial elicitor that is used to elicit a candidate topic from the next speaker while being mute with respect to what that topic may be, and by topic nominations that are oriented to particular newsworthy items. Two sequence types that may be used for topic nomination are itemised news enquires and news announcements.…”

“…Due to the nature of the context we are dealing with, the potential transition strategies to introduce a discussion phase of another artwork are limited to the following categories from the literature: explanations in the sense of Heinroth et al (2011), informative statements (Downing, 2000), itemised news enquires and news announcements (Button and Casey, 1985), categorisation question-answer pairs and question-answer pairs involving activities (Maynard and Zimmerman, 1984), and parallelism (Hobbs, 1990). It is however not prescribed how we could generate formulations for each of these detection-based categories for the context we are looking at.…”