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verbally negotiating both participants’ readiness to resume walking. This can
be done through brief enquiries, as in excerpt 8. Before the following adja-
cency pair is produced, André and Valentina are moving rather slowly, scan-
ning the products that are present in the displays:
Excerpt (8) (cons45811/08:46–09:35)
After André’s no (l. 4) both participants proceed sensibly faster than they did
before. Actually, their trajectories will separate them shortly after, so that
they will have to re-configure their togetherness later on.
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What is interest-
ing about this adjacency pair is that it exhibits the way in which a) the local ...