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Definition adjacency pair in British English

adjacency pair noun

[countable] noun
/əˌdʒeɪs(ə)nsi ˈpeə(r)/
1

a sequence of two turns in conversation such as a question and an answer, where the first item leads to the second

Example

The sequence of Complaint-Denial is an adjacency pair.

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Definition adjacency pair in British English