ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the characteristics of the turn-taking system of intimate communities of practice in order to discover the intimate setting's 'fingerprint' the system of shared interact ional practices, influenced by factors such as mutual engagement and joint enterprise, amongst conversational participants that is distinct from other talk-in-interaction settings. It also focuses on turn-initial items as the Limerick Corpus of Intimate Talk (LINT) word frequency list, first encountered in this chapter. Therefore, turn initial and turn final items will be analysed in order to demonstrate the uniqueness of the intimate communities of practice turn-taking system in comparison to other settings. Clancy and McCarthy, in analysing both Limerick Corpus of Irish English (LCIE) and The Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) data from the intimate and socialising context-types, observed that 10" of when-clauses at turn initial position were second speaker completions and, in relation to turn initial if-clauses.
