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Lapses as social objects

This chapter summarizes and discusses the prior chapters and then relates the findings to other domains of social research. The findings of the four empirical studies are summarized and placed into a broader perspective. The lapse environment is characterized as a particular place in talk where particular practical issues come to the fore. Those practical issues that are characteristic of lapses are then related to the range of behaviors that occur in lapses. The findings as a whole are then discussed with relation to other research on silence. Particular attention is given to so-called awkward silence, how lapses can be generative of embarrassment, and how this is grounded in agency and turn-taking. The chapter ends with a discussion of lapses in comparative or cross-cultural perspective.