Like conversational English,during the course of translating conversational Chinese,it is common that we frequently use dialects and slang,and are easily affected by various language environments.

Adjacency correspondence ", as a means of achieving coherence of conversational discourse, has been addressed in works concerning discourse study.

Since conversational discourse and written discourse have their respective characteristics, there must be different means of understanding the coherence of the two kinds of discourse.

This paper explores several aspects of turn-taking in English conversation and discusses their expressions.

The systematic analysis of English conversation originated in the second half of last century, many scholars have contributed their efforts to daily conversation, such as Sacks who advanced a set of rules of turn-taking, John Austin who proposed speech act theory and Grice who put forward the theory of conversational implicature.

English turn-conversation plays an important part in English conversations.

The Buyei folk literature in Luoping,based on the natural worship outlook that all creatures have minds and the comparative aesthetic out look,forms such social discourse functions as:1)conveying the knowledge of origin;2)recording working experience;3)regulating social behavior;and such aesthetic discourse functions as :1)having love sustenance;2)protruding honest character.