Research indicates that in English-speaking cultures, people welcome interruptions during informal conversations, seeing them as a form of active participation. However, in Japanese culture, interrupting someone while they are speaking is considered impolite. What is it like in your culture or country? Feel free to discuss this issue. It would be even better if you could provide any relevant studies from your country!
What an amazing coincidence! I was just chatting with a Chinese friend about this yesterday! We mentioned how Tao (2018 and 2020) frequently writes about this from an Asian perspective, and I commented that in my First Nations community, the Crane Clan of the Runaway Band of Potawatomi Indians, we have developed such a keen sensitivity to conversational politeness (Good Tracks, 1973) that our discussions may become highly ritualized.
This is true for many First Nations communities, speaking English or otherwise, where it is considered extremely rude to interrupt others during a conversation (Heit, 1987). Contemporary Dakota people, for example, disparagingly call White people "Washichu" to denote their alleged greed and reckless me-first-ism, frequently observable in the way they overtalk each other.
To avoid this behaviour, many Native communities employ a physical object as what linguists might call a "turn-construction moderator" (Rosnija 2014). This physical object, most often referred to as a "talking stick" (Indigenous Corporate Training 2015), can be a decorated stick, staff, eagle feather, rattle, or some other device, and whoever holds it has the right to speak without interruption.
During my research among monolingual Savanna Pume hunter-gatherers of Venezuela, long recitations of oral literature often garnered interruptions by equally knowledgable individuals. The interruptions in daily conversations are not considered problematic, anyone adds their own opinions as they will, often resulting in multiple lines of dialogue simultaneously being expressed. Oral literature is not a "sacred" thing that cannot be interrupted, but it has a rhythm and beauty in how the tale unrolls, and the person speaking wishes to relish the metaphor and performance. The appropriate response to folks butting-in is a one-word term that can be glossed as "I'm getting to that!". The term also has a meaning of "developed" or "ready". I became acutely aware of the term when I was studying reproductive maturity among girls. I knew how to ask about menstruating, but those terms are used in a way that means "I/she am/is menstruating today". I had a house full of pre-and post-pubescent girls in my house, along with a young woman in her early 30s who understood what I wanted to know, and told me the term was this word I knew in the context of deflecting interruptions during historical oratory. She identified each girl who had passed menarche as "developed/ready" and those who had not as "not "developed/ready". We played a "duck-duck-goose" reinforcement of that to be certain I understood, where I touched each girl on the head as she had done and I repeated the identifiers of "developed" or "not developed" so I was sure I had these data on who had reached menarche (the Pume have no reservations about discussing all aspects of human biology or sexual behaviors).
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