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Excerpt (3) (cons4581/21:03–21:15)
At the beginning of the excerpt, Valentina and André are moving through
an aisle with no apparent (i.e. no previously formulated) goal (figure 13). As
they approach access to a lateral aisle, Valentina produces the lexical noun
phrase la marmellata [‘the jam’] (l. 2). While in other occurrences (see excerpts
5, 8) formulations like these are exhibited and treated as a way of introducing
talk about a specific commercial product, in this excerpt it seems to accom-
plish another kind of work: as figure 14 shows, Valentina produces her turn
while she notices the presence of jam jars on a shelf. ...