For over twenty years, social psychologists have been conducting research on conversational interruptions, often with contradictory results. These discrepancies may be traced not only to definitional inconsistencies, but to the empirically tenuous concept of “interruption.” Examples from two naturally occurring conversations are drawn to support the study of onset and resolution as more rigorous and describable procedures.
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Kent Drummond (1989) studied this question.
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