Transition Relevance Places and Overlapping in (Spanish-English) Conversational Etiquette

Present-day pragmaticists regard Henk Haverkate's work on conversational etiquette as a momentous insight into politeness studies. In spite of recent endeavours to highlight the socio-pragmatic disparities between Spanish and British politeness models, very little research has been conducted into conversational etiquette. This paper seeks to examine different models of conversational etiquette in Spanish and English in order to offer an introduction to turn-taking theory, conduct an empirical analysis of turn-taking in these languages in formal scenarios, and discuss the results within the framework of politeness studies.