Example sentences of "party to [art] conversation " in BNC.
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| 1 | B 's possible responses listed above , while overtly responding to the question " you know what I mean ? " are actually heard by parties to the conversation as supporting A's proposition , " I ca n't make head nor tail of this " . |
| 2 | Less frequently an utterance may meet with disagreement from the other parties to the conversation . |
| 3 | In each case , it is the Creole which is reacted to : in ( 1 ) , by J , who responds " you ca n't " , and in ( 2 ) by all the parties to the conversation , who laugh for three seconds — rather a long laugh . |
| 4 | So in spite of it being a mid-turn switch , in this case we seem to have a different type of switch from the one in ( 6 ) , for the other parties to the conversation respond differently to it . |
| 5 | On the other hand , stretches of Creole embedded in a London English turn often correspond to the most salient parts of the utterance , those which the other parties to the conversation respond to . |
| 6 | Each party to the conversation uses as many " Creole " tokens as s/he feels comfortable with . |