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tial environment at hand are also visible in the way participants structure the
turn in which they introduce a new referent. A tendency has been observed
towards placing referential terms relating to some commercial product at
turn beginnings, such as in excerpt 3 (la marmellata [‘the jam’]), excerpt 4
(formaggi [‘cheeses’]) and excerpt 8 (carne [‘meat’]). Placed at turn beginnings,
such referential expressions are exhibited and treated as noticings (Sacks 1992,
2: 87–97; Schegloff 1988), occurring systematically after visual access to
some new object has been established. This way of initiating the turn may
hence provide for specific ...