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Verb tense organization as an interactional resource in conversational storytelling
This chapter focuses on story beginnings and endings. Stories emerge from turn-by-turn talk, which is locally occasioned by it, and upon their completion, stories re-engage turn-by-turn talk, which is sequentially implicative for it. The re-engagement of turn-by-turn talk at a story's completion is a matter of sequential implicativeness in both senses, that is, at a story's ending, two discrete aspects similar to those observed for local occasioning can be found. A story can serve as a source for triggered or topically coherent subsequent talk, and a range of techniques are used to display a relationship between the story and subsequent talk. While re-engagement of turn-by-turn talk may be the primary issue upon a story's completion, there are other matters to which a storyteller may be oriented. Specifically, there may be orientation to what a recipient makes of the story and, thus, what the story has amounted to. The chapter presents a dramatic instance in which recipient displays appreciation and understanding of a story at a possible completion point.