Adjacency Pair

邻接对

A term used in sociolinguistic analyses of conversational interaction to refer to a single stimulus-plus-response sequence by the participants. Adjacency pairs have been analyzed in terms of their role in initiating, maintain and closing conversations (e.g. the various conventions of greeting, leave-taking, topic-changing), and constitute, it has been suggested, an important methodological concept in investigating the ethnography of communication.

社会语言学分析会话互动过程的术语，指两个参与者之间的单个“刺激—反应”序列。分析邻接对主要是注意它们在引发、维持、结束会话的过程中所起的作用（例如打招呼、告辞、转移话题的各种习惯做法）；有人认为，邻接对是研究信递文化人类学的一个重要的方法论概念。