Social Skill #1
Wallis et al. 2001
- If you want the maintain the conversation, and it is your turn, and
there is nothing to say, give the initiative back to them by saying something
encouraging
- Eliza does this - and nothing else.
- A corollary: If you want to terminate the conversation, and retain
social agent status, you will need to get through a very particular set of
adjacency pairs (Sacks and Schegloff)
