Abstract
In the present study we intend to examine the so-called turn-taking model to verify to what extent the different phenomena, which are assigned to it, are changing. We will try to confi rm how they change not only with structural qualifi cations but also with relational values that, according to conversational analysis and postulates of speech ethnography, correspond to interpersonal functions. What is more, we shall demonstrate that overlaps and interruptions are products of the different pragmatic intentions and they cannot be seen only in terms of deviations or transgressions to the system of distribution of parole.