# Conversational Turn-Taking Conversational turn-taking is the coordination by which participants begin, continue, yield, and respond without erasing one another's speaking space. ## Notebook evidence PDF pages 20–22 of [[Scanned_20260730-1825]] inventory interruptive phrases, reconstruct a Mercy Ships conversation that reached a conclusion before the speaker's topic was heard, and end with the dated rule recorded in [[Journal - Manners and Speaking Space]]. ## Archival significance The pages treat conversation as an information system. Repeated interruption can produce a false endpoint: the exchange appears complete although the source never transmitted the information needed for a sound conclusion. This connects [[Holding Space]], [[Interruption]], and [[Premature Closure]] to the archive's broader concern with testimony and provenance. ## Source - [[Scanned_20260730-1825]], PDF pages 20–22.