This study investigates the closings of face-to-face conversations and proposes that it is vital to analyze it from the perspective of "activity". The data used in the study was collected by tracing the activities of the subjects over a period of one day. For this reason, the conversations gathered as data are contiguous to the various activities performed by the subjects during that day. The analysis focuses on "Core activities", that is, activities with the most obvious purpose in the given scenario, along with their purpose. The results show that the participants broached the closing according to the degree of success in completing the activity when the purpose of the "core activity" is clear. On the other hand even if there were no clear purposes, there was a preference in the order of topics, from significant to marginal with the marginal topics in the conversation appearing just before the closing, preceded by what can also be regarded as a climax. Thus it can be inferred that participants have certain expectations from expectations for the conversations even if they seem without purpose, and the participants organize the closings, according to their expectations of what should be achieved in the limited time. In this way, by focusing on the expectation, that is to say, the seemingly absent purpose of the activity in conversations that include casual chats, we can give a more realistic description of conversation closings.
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