@article{oai:kansaigaidai.repo.nii.ac.jp:00007750,
 author = {Kubo, Susumu},
 journal = {The Journal of Intercultural Studies},
 month = {},
 note = {This paper presents an argument to prove the theoretical status of a minimal unit of conversation called ‘adjacency pair.’ It was rejected as a theoretical unit of conversation by Searle (1992a, 1992b) and was reluctantly consented as a practice by Schegloff (1992) after a debate between them. This paper examines utterance pairs consisting of a disjunctive utterance and its preceding utterances that constitute an intended/unintended oxymoron and demonstrates how causally they are related by specifying the perlocutionary effect of the perlocutionary act concomitantly performed by the speaker of the preceding utterances. 
This paper presumes that this causal relation partially or totally satisfies Searle (1992b)’s Intentional causation, which satisfies his claim such that a form of pattern is explanatory if and only if it can exemplify a rule or some other form of Intentional [sic] causation.
To prove these presumptions, this paper examines English scripts with oxymora and disjunctive utterances which are the translations by the present author from the original Japanese novels that explicitly reflect ordinary Japanese conversation within the framework of regulation theory proposed in Kubo (2003, 2004, 2007, 2012, 2014) that is an extension of current speech act theory.},
 pages = {33--46},
 title = {An Argument for ‘Adjacency Pair’ as a Theoretical Unit of Conversation},
 volume = {40},
 year = {2016}
}