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Description: A downgrade (or downgrading, downgraded) has been used in slightly different ways throughout the CA and IL literature, but always with a general sense of scaling down or attenuating a turn or action, usually with respect to something prior. The point of comparison may either be others’ prior talk or one’s own talk, or some unmarked default turn design, against which different alternative formulations are measured.