Passing Turn
Definition:
A passing turn is a move that
- indicates that its speaker has nothing further to say, and
- passes speakership to another participant.
Examples:
At the end of a telephone conversation, each of the moves in a mutual exchange of okay before saying good-byes is a passing turn.
Source:
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.