Coordinating Conversation (Alexey Tymbay)

How do speakers coordinate turns in spontaneous dialogue? Alexey Tymbay examines turn-taking as a central mechanism of dialogue organization, focusing on the role of prosody, communicative strategies, and participant interaction in shaping conversational flow. Drawing on an experimental phonetic study and a communicative-pragmatic framework, he proposes an integrated model and offers a systematic account of the linguistic and prosodic resources that structure spoken interaction. The study thus contributes to contemporary research in the fields of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and speech communication.

Alexey Tymbay is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the Technical University of Liberec and a member of the Czech Association for the Study of English. He teaches a range of courses in linguistics, EFL methodology, and related disciplines. His research interests also include phonetics and pragmatics.