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Description: Closing most commonly refers to the structured ending of a conversation, i.e. the collaborative work of participants to bring a conversation to an end. In order to appropriately close a conversation, participants must “coordinate the suspension of the transition relevance of possible utterance completion” (Schegloff & Sacks 1973: 295) so that they’re not held accountable for ceasing to talk, hanging up the phone or walking away.