PSYCHOLOGY

What is Turn Allocation Technique?

What is Turn Allocation Technique?

Introduction

Effective communication is basic need and human activity and for that one should be able to hold a conversation that should be interactive for the successful feedback and response. Coordination is indispensible by the participants, because without it, the desired response could not be achieved from the either side. Effective conversation in the elementary sense involves all the verbal and non-verbal activities such as when to listen and when to start talking. Though it is obvious that speaking and listening is the basic traits in every person, but the desired results from the feedback of both persons are not effective due to the one person overlapping others or some other communication barriers involved. Effective conversation is equally important in business and casual conversations. The common dialogues used in the daily conversation like “Hi!, how are you!, Alright!, Good. How's it going, how's life treating you” and the like impacts a lot on the daily negotiations of the person's life. These dialogues involved the typical questions, replies and statements along with the along with the body language and facial expressions. During conversation, if the person is looking at a watch, then this suggests he might wants to end the conversation. All these then lead to the understanding and usage of different mechanisms used in the language organization. The conversation mechanisms are introduced to facilitate the coordination and conversations by helping people in effective speaking and listening and also provide them the interactive activity rather than just one-sided speaking and listening. The activity that guides the people when to speak and listen is known as the turn-taking or turn allocation technique. The turn taking is the technique used in the conversation analysis studies. The mechanisms of the conversation used help people execute the turn-taking for the effective communication.

One such model is developed by Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson (1974, pp. 696) that provides the mechanism of conversation to the people in managing their turn-taking. The amazing feature of the model is their organization. The basic purpose of their research is to identify and create the framework that is universally applied to beyond the cultures and contexts. The framework thus provides the guidance about setting the structure and dynamics of conversations. The frame and organization of the interaction that involves the turn-taking is essential for the effective conversation or any other conversation of oral or written.

The purpose of the model developed by the Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson (1974, pp. 700) was to give the effective conversation mechanism that includes the rights of both speaker and listener. The speaker changes are essential and often recur. The model facilitates that only one party can speak at one time or if there is a group conversation, then only one person will often talk at a time so that other persons can also be given opportunity to talk. This will mitigate the possible hindrances in the conversation. The conversation between the people occur will no gap or overlap, ...