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previous action, thereby revealing a retrospective orientation (putting an ob-
ject in the shopping cart after a positive buying decision is perhaps the most
evident example for the retrospective orientation). Others exhibit rather a
prospective orientation, as they are fundamentally contributing to the or-
ganisation of the couple’s upcoming actions: for instance, “walking on” has a
strong prospective component. In the following sections I will describe the
most recurrent resources that participants deploy to achieve and to exhibit
action transition. I will start by analysing the verbal resources and then focus
on the way talk is ...