ABSTRACT
Meetings have attracted significant interest over the years given their frequency and importance for participants and organisations. The term covers heterogeneous gatherings in which people meet for professional and institutional purposes and work together on a common task and goal. The organisation of meetings crucially relies on how the floor is successively given to participants. For institutional situations in which large numbers of participants gather together, such as meetings, specialised formats restrict the number of persons allowed to speak and who can initiate talk, contributing to focusing the activity on a main participant and to defining the audience as constituting a single party rather than a number of possible persons. The facilitator exhibits the relevance of two distinct spaces within the room: one, on his right, is where the author of the proposal is located, the other, in front of him, is where the co-participants he addresses are distributed.
