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Stuff I plan on adding to the introduction paragraph
In order to be classified as an adjacency pair, the first pair part must relate to the second pair part. Two or more adjacency pairs may occur in sequence after one another, or a two utterance adjacency pair may be completed with a third utterance, also called a three-part interchange.

Usage
Adjacency pairs are most commonly found in what Schelgoff and Sacks described as a "single conversation," a unit of communication in which a single person speaks and a second person replies to the first speaker's utterance. While the turn-taking mechanism of single conversation uses silence to indicate that the next speaker's turn may begin, adjacency pairs are used to show that both speakers are finished with the conversation and that the ensuing silence does not require either of the speakers to take another turn.

The prevalent use of adjacency pairs in greetings and terminal exchanges demonstrate the adjacency pair's primary function of being an organizational unit of conversation. Without the signal and expected response of the two utterances, the silence of one speaker may be never filled by the second speaker, or filled incorrectly. Adjacency pairs also convey politeness and a willingness from one speaker to acknowledge the feelings of the second speaker. For example, in English the greeting "How are you?" is mostly commonly followed by "I'm doing well," thus creating an adjacency pair that demonstrates a polite interest from one speaker and a reciprocal acknowledgment of that interest from the other. Failure to reply politely to the greeting "How are you?" is usually a sign of bad manners or an unwillingness to converse, thus showing how an adjacency pair is necessary to establish a working rapport between two speakers.

Three-part interchange
A three-part exchange occurs after the first speaker in a conversation adds an additional response to the former two utterances. The third part serves many conversational functions, including evaluation of the response, recognition of an acceptable response, and comprehension of the response. Additionally, the third part can initiate topic bounding, a technique used to end a conversational exchange. In face-to-face communication, the third utterance can also be expressed non-verbally. Conversational transcripts may leave out non-verbal third part responses, falsely indicating that a third part is missing from the conversation

Examples of three-part interchanges

 * Evaluative
 * "What is the capital of China?"
 * "Beijing."
 * "Good work."
 * Recognition of acceptability
 * "Where are you going?
 * "To the store."
 * "I'll come, too."
 * Comprehension
 * "Is he home yet?"
 * "No."
 * "Okay."
 * Topic bounding
 * "Can you look this over?"
 * "I'm busy."
 * "I'll ask you again later."
 * "I'll ask you again later."

This is great content on three-turn sequences, and a crucial observation that a third-part responses might be nonlinguistic or nonverbal.

If you're looking for more sources, the key person to cite here is Emanuel Schegloff. This is the article that introduced the term "adjacency pair," and this is a good reference book that deals extensively with adjacency pairs. djg (talk) 03:46, 21 February 2019 (UTC)