The Value of Vale: Negotiating the Progressivity of Service in a Market Restaurant

Abstract This paper examines the interactional functions of Spanish conversational particle vale in self-recorded service encounter interactions a bidialectal restaurant server an Ecuadorian Madrid whose clientele are, by and large, descent. The article details sequential contexts which is found as well grammatical prosodic design turns where it deployed, contrasts its use with slots same dataset alternatives were deployed instead. It also compares findings resonant descriptions from prior studies English counterpart: okay , given similarities observed for . Vale was identified standalone third position during ordering activity bearing rising or falling intonation to register (in)completeness order contingencies around it, turn-final agreement-eliciting tag rising-falling appended announcements imminent welcome clients serve dishes.