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Candidate understanding
- Salla Kurhila
- Daniel Radice
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Description: A candidate understanding is a turn-in-talk in which the speaker presents for confirmation or disconfirmation their understanding of a previous speaker's turn. They usually, but not necessarily, relate to the immediately preceding turn (Schegloff, et al. 1977). Candidate understandings are also referred to simply as ‘candidates’, normally as part of the phrase ‘to offer a candidate’.
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