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#506 - Elizabeth Stokoe - The Science Of Analysing Conversations

Modern Wisdom

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Conversation Analysis - Silence in Conversations

Silence isn't typically an inert thing. You can show someone that you're thinking, like helanded, yesa. But even so, there's tesa pointin time where that just gets too long. A silence of one point noughts is starting to be quite a delay. The longest silence i have got in any of my podcasts has been 11 point two seconds. So those long silences are a real breach. I suppose the typical pace occurs at which we wouldn't see them as breaches if we didn't tacitly know they were happening. Know, somehow, about a second and a half is already getting quite long. And you know, 11, 11-and-

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