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Excerpt (4) (Conversation 3)
22 A: c’était toi:: petit coquin::=
so it was you:: naughty boy
23 B: =>voilà voilà voilà.< (.) tu es dans le coin?
>well well well< (.) are you around?
24 A: (0.7) ouais:: je suis dans le coin: (0.1) mais
25 là je vais à un cours de pagès:=
yeah: I’m around but now I’m going to a lesson
by Pagès
26 B: ah::::::. >très bien très bien très bien< (.)
27 très bien
ah::::::. >okay, okay, okay< (.) okay
The answerer marks a pause (l. 24), agrees, and confirms her presence on the
campus in the same terms (‘yeah:: I’m around’). Because of the sequential or-
ganisation and also the similar design of their indexical formulations of lo-
cation, this does more than just localise her. It asserts their ...