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Next-turn proof procedure
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Description: The next-turn proof procedure refers to the practice whereby a next turn is designed/inspected for the speaker’s displayed understanding of the prior turn (Sacks, et al. 1974: 728-729). Next turns in conversation thereby function as both (i) a resource for the participants in the conversation themselves as they provide evidence for whether, and how, their turns are understood by other interlocutors, and (ii) as an object of analysis where analysts take recipients’ responses as one source of evidence for the analysis of the prior turn (Heritage 1984: 256-257).