Sometimes, the joint action of context-building can suddenly stall:
“Conversation analysts have identified one such kind of 'glitch' in the smooth flow of conversational activity as what they call a 'dispreferred response'. On some occasions, a speaker responds to a question or statement with a remark which is apparently not the one sought or expected by their conversational partner. By the behaviour of that partner (signs of dismay or confusion, for example) this can be identified as a response which was 'dispreferred'. This reaction then frequently motivates an explanatory account by the person who had made the inappropriate-seeming contribution.” (p. 58)
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