taking the floor

Synonym(s)

Sources

• Sacks Schlegoff & Jefferson 1974 699 (speakership)

  SACKS, Harvey, SCHLEGOFF, E.A. and JEFFERSON, G. (1974) "A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking in Conversation", in Language 50/4, 696-735.

• McLaughlin 1984 106-107 (floor)

  McLAUGHLIN, Margaret L. (1984) Conversation: How Talk is Organized. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

• MATTHEWS 1997 131 (holding the floor)

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.