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As we see in figure 9 the passenger is, this time around, able to declare “this
is a great job” (frame 2), though even here she softens her assessment with a
tag question. In frame 3 of figure 9, in the response to the tag question (e.g.
“isn’t it?”), the passenger pursues a meeting of their gazes for agreement
(Mondada 2012). Here we see the maintenance of gaze by the passenger be-
ginning in frame 2 and continuing into frame 3 where it is not only receipted
but with an aligning smile. The addition of the smile is a common feature of
agreeing to evaluations (Ruusuvuori and Peräkylä ...